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title: He has certainly made out a good case for tracing all European droll… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He has certainly made out a good case for tracing all European drolls, or comic folk-tales, from the East. Who acts: Mr, good case. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 77

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He has certainly made out a good case for tracing all European drolls, or comic folk-tales, from the East.

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**Who acts:** Mr, good case · **What happens:** make out, trace · **To what, where:** good case, European drolls, East

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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, good case), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg7128:2446`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7128:30:77
# text = He has certainly made out a good case for tracing all European drolls, or comic folk-tales, from the East.
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	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	tracing	trace	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
12	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	drolls	droll	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	comic	comic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	_
19	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make out** | present · perfect | Mr | a good case |  |  |  | certainly *property* | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer case=Stimulus |
| 2 | **trace** | gerund | a good case *not said here* | all European drolls or comic folk tales |  | the East |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent droll=Theme |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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