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title: With the fairy tale strictly so called--_i.e._, the serious folk-tal… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: With the fairy tale strictly so called--_i.e._, the serious folk-tale of romantic adventure--I am more doubtful. Who acts: I, romantic adventure. 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 78

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With the fairy tale strictly so called--\_i.e.\_, the serious folk-tale of romantic adventure--I am more doubtful.

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**Who acts:** I, romantic adventure · **What happens:** call, be, tell · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I, romantic adventure), 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:pg7128:30:78
# text = With the fairy tale strictly so called--_i.e._, the serious folk-tale of romantic adventure--I am more doubtful.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	strictly	strictly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	i.e.	i.e.	ADV	FW	_	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	romantic	romantic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	adventure	adventure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	25	advmod	_	_
25	doubtful	doubtful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with the fairy tale; strictly *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | doubtful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** |  | romantic adventure |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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