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title: In my opinion, the work he has done for the European folk-tale is ev… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In my opinion, the work he has done for the European folk-tale is even more valuable than the conclusions he draws from it as to the relations with India. Who acts: M., work, my. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, with its dependency tree and 
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 69

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In my opinion, the work he has done for the European folk-tale is even more valuable than the conclusions he draws from it as to the relations with India.

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**Who acts:** M., work, my · **What happens:** do, be, draw, opine · **To what, where:** work, opinion

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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 (M., work, my), 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:pg7128:30:69
# text = In my opinion, the work he has done for the European folk-tale is even more valuable than the conclusions he draws from it as to the relations with India.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	even	even	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
19	valuable	valuable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
20	than	than	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	conclusions	conclusion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	draws	draw	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present · perfect | M. | the work *not said here* |  |  |  | for the European folk tale | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | present | the work |  |  | my opinion |  | valuable *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **draw** | present | M. |  |  |  |  | than the conclusions; as the relations with India; from work | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from it=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **opine** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=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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