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title: Mr Clouston has not openly expressed his conviction that all folk-ta… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Mr Clouston has not openly expressed his conviction that all folk-tales are Indian in origin: he prefers to convince us _non vi sed sæpe cadendo_. Who acts: Mr, conviction. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 76

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Mr Clouston has not openly expressed his conviction that all folk-tales are Indian in origin: he prefers to convince us \_non vi sed sæpe cadendo\_.

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**Who acts:** Mr, conviction · **What happens:** not express, be, prefer, convince, s, convict · **To what, where:** conviction, origin, us

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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 (Mr, conviction), 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:pg7128:30:76
# text = Mr Clouston has not openly expressed his conviction that all folk-tales are Indian in origin: he prefers to convince us _non vi sed sæpe cadendo_.
1	Mr	Mr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	Clouston	Clouston	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	openly	openly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	expressed	express	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	conviction	conviction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
11	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	acl:relcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	prefers	prefer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	convince	convince	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	iobj	_	_
24	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	non	non	ADV	AFX	_	22	xcomp	_	_
26	vi	vi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	25	goeswith	_	_
27	sed	s	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	amod	_	_
28	sæpe	sæpe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	cadendo	cadendo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **express** | present · perfect | Mr | Mr's conviction |  |  |  | openly *property* | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conviction=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | Mr's conviction |  |  | origin |  | indian *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **prefer** | present | Mr |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **convince** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Mr *not said here* |  | us |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus we=Experiencer |
| 5 | **s** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **convict** |  | Mr |  |  |  |  |  | nom conviction «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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