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title: He has certainly shown that very many of the most striking incidents… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He has certainly shown that very many of the most striking incidents common to European folk-tales are also to be found in Eastern _mährchen_. Who acts: M.. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 72

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He has certainly shown that very many of the most striking incidents common to European folk-tales are also to be found in Eastern \_mährchen\_.

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**Who acts:** M. · **What happens:** show, strike, find · **To what, where:** many, Eastern

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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.), 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:pg7128:30:72
# text = He has certainly shown that very many of the most striking incidents common to European folk-tales are also to be found in Eastern _mährchen_.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	11	advmod	_	_
11	striking	strike	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	amod	_	_
12	incidents	incident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
13	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	case	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
20	also	also	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Eastern	Eastern	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	23	obl	_	_
26	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	mährchen	mährchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present · perfect | M. |  |  |  |  | certainly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **strike** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | present · passive |  | many of the striking incidents common European folk tales |  | Eastern |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

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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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