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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 59

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The largest addition to our knowledge of the Indian folk-tale that has been made since \_Wideawake Stories\_ is that contained in Mr. Knowles' \_Folk-Tales of Kashmir\_ (Trübner's Oriental Library, 1887), sixty-three stories, some of great length.

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**Who acts:** Kashmir · **What happens:** make, contain, tell · **To what, where:** Indian folk tale, largest addition, Folk Tales · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kashmir), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7128:30:59
# text = The largest addition to our knowledge of the Indian folk-tale that has been made since _Wideawake Stories_ is that contained in Mr. Knowles' _Folk-Tales of Kashmir_ (Trübner's Oriental Library, 1887), sixty-three stories, some of great length.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	addition	addition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obl	_	_
14	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	since	since	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Wideawake	wideawake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	contained	contain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
26	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:desc	_	_
27	Knowles	Knowles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	'	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	Folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	Tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Kashmir	Kashmir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	34	punct	_	_
36	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	Trübner	Trübner	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	's	's	PART	POS	_	37	case	_	_
39	Oriental	Oriental	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	Library	Library	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	1887	1887	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	40	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
45	sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	47	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	48	nummod	_	_
48	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
50	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	32	conj	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present · perfect · passive |  | the Indian folk tale |  |  | since Wideawake Stories |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» |
| 2 | **contain** | present · passive |  | the largest addition to our knowledge of the Indian folk tale |  | Folk Tales of Kashmir and three stories |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in tale=Location |
| 3 | **tell** |  | Kashmir |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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