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title: He has taken up the work which Wilhelm Grimm dropped in 1859, and sh… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 70

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He has taken up the work which Wilhelm Grimm dropped in 1859, and shown from the huge accumulations of folk-tales that have appeared during the last thirty years that there is a common fund of folk-tales which every country of Europe without exception possesses, though this does not of course preclude them from possessing others that are not shared by the rest.

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**Who acts:** M., Wilhelm, folk tales, that, common fund, this · **What happens:** take up, drop, show, appear, be, country · **To what, where:** work, 1859, huge accumulations, tales, others, folk tales

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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., Wilhelm, folk tales, that), 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:pg7128:30:70
# text = He has taken up the work which Wilhelm Grimm dropped in 1859, and shown from the huge accumulations of folk-tales that have appeared during the last thirty years that there is a common fund of folk-tales which every country of Europe without exception possesses, though this does not of course preclude them from possessing others that are not shared by the rest.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obj	_	_
8	Wilhelm	Wilhelm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	Grimm	Grimm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	1859	1859	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	accumulations	accumulation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
25	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	appeared	appear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	during	during	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
33	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	34	expl	_	_
34	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	49	parataxis	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	fund	fund	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	_
42	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	44	nsubj	_	_
43	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	44	det	_	_
44	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	acl:relcl	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	_
47	without	without	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	exception	exception	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	_
49	possesses	possess	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
51	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
52	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	57	nsubj:outer	_	_
53	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
54	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	57	advmod	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADV	57	advmod	_	_
56	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	fixed	_	_
57	preclude	preclude	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	parataxis	_	_
58	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	obj	_	_
59	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	60	mark	_	_
60	possessing	possess	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	57	advcl	_	_
61	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	60	obj	_	_
62	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	65	nsubj:pass	_	_
63	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	65	aux:pass	_	_
64	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	65	advmod	_	_
65	shared	share	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	61	acl:relcl	_	_
66	by	by	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
67	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	68	det	_	_
68	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take up** | present · perfect | M. | the work |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme |
| 2 | **drop** | past | Wilhelm | the work |  | 1859 |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent which=Theme in 1859=Destination |
| 3 | **show** | participle | M. *not said here* |  |  | the huge accumulations of folk tales |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **appear** | present · perfect | folk tales |  |  |  | year |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **be** | present | that |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **country** |  | folk tales |  |  |  |  | of Europe; without exception | tree rules |
| 7 | **possess** | present | a common fund of folk tales |  |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 8 | **not** **preclude** | present · do-support | this | tales *= tale* |  |  |  |  | vn exclude-107.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 9 | **possess** | gerund | this *not said here* | others |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot other=Theme |
| 10 | **not** **share** | present · passive | the rest | others |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 11 | **accumulate** |  |  | folk tales |  |  |  |  | nom accumulation «process transitive»: of=patient |
| 12 | **fund** |  |  | folk tales |  |  |  |  | nom fund «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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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