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title: Some of Somadeva's tales, however, approach the nature of fairy tale… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Some of Somadeva's tales, however, approach the nature of fairy tales, but there are several Celtic tales which can be traced to an earlier date than his (1200 A.D.) and are equally near to fairy tales. Who acts: tales, several Celtic tales, Somadeva. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jac
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 81

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Some of Somadeva's tales, however, approach the nature of fairy tales, but there are several Celtic tales which can be traced to an earlier date than his (1200 A.D.) and are equally near to fairy tales.

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**Who acts:** tales, several Celtic tales, Somadeva · **What happens:** approach, be, trace, tell · **To what, where:** nature, fairy tales, several Celtic tales · **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 (tales, several Celtic tales, Somadeva), 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:pg7128:30:81
# text = Some of Somadeva's tales, however, approach the nature of fairy tales, but there are several Celtic tales which can be traced to an earlier date than his (1200 A.D.) and are equally near to fairy tales.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	Somadeva	Somadeva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	however	however	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	approach	approach	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
18	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
19	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
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	21	acl:relcl	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	earlier	early	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	amod	_	_
29	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	than	than	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
32	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	1200	1200	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
34	A.D	A.D	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
38	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
39	equally	equally	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	near	near	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **approach** | infinitive | Somadeva's tales | the nature of fairy tales |  | fairy tales |  | however *property* | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nature=Theme |
| 2 | **does** | present | several Celtic tales |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **trace** | can · passive |  | several Celtic tales |  |  |  | to a earlier date than Somadeva's 1200 A.D | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **tell** |  | Somadeva |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: 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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