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title: And it is indeed remarkable how many of the _formulæ_ of fairy tales… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And it is indeed remarkable how many of the _formulæ_ of fairy tales have been found of recent years in India. Who acts: instance. 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 84

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And it is indeed remarkable how many of the \_formulæ\_ of fairy tales have been found of recent years in India.

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**Who acts:** instance · **What happens:** be, find · **To what, where:** formulæ

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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 (instance), 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:pg7128:30:84
# text = And it is indeed remarkable how many of the _formulæ_ of fairy tales have been found of recent years in India.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	formulæ	formulæ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	recent	recent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | instance |  |  |  |  | many of the formulæ *obl*; indeed, remarkable *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | present · perfect · passive |  | the formulæ *not said here* |  |  | year | of fairy tales | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF» |

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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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