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title: Their influence on European folk-tales has been very great: it is pr… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Their influence on European folk-tales has been very great: it is probable that nearly one-tenth of these can be traced to the Bidpai literature. Who acts: influence. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 8

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Their influence on European folk-tales has been very great: it is probable that nearly one-tenth of these can be traced to the Bidpai literature.

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**Who acts:** influence · **What happens:** be, trace · **To what, where:** one tenth

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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 (influence), 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:pg7128:30:8
# text = Their influence on European folk-tales has been very great: it is probable that nearly one-tenth of these can be traced to the Bidpai literature.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	influence	influence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
8	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	cop	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	probable	probable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
17	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	tenth	tenth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	20	nmod	_	_
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	traced	trace	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Bidpai	Bidpai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present · perfect | languages's influence on European folk tales |  |  |  |  | great *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | influence |  |  |  |  | probable *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **trace** | can · passive |  | one tenth of these |  |  |  | to the Bidpai literature | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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