--- title: I think we may answer "Yes" as regards droll incidents, the travels… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: I think we may answer "Yes" as regards droll incidents, the travels of many of which we can trace, and we have the curious result that European children owe their earliest laughter to Hindu wags. Who acts: I, we, regards, European children. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, we, regards, European children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7128:30:94 # text = I think we may answer "Yes" as regards droll incidents, the travels of many of which we can trace, and we have the curious result that European children owe their earliest laughter to Hindu wags. 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 answer answer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 9 as as SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 regards regards NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 11 nsubj _ _ 11 droll droll VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 12 incidents incident NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 travels travel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 obl _ _ 20 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 trace trace VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 curious curious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 result result NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 30 that that SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 31 European European ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 owe owe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 34 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 35 earliest early ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 36 amod _ _ 36 laughter laughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 Hindu hindu ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 wags wag NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | I | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | may | we | | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent yes=Eventuality | | 3 | **droll** | present | regards | incidents | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **travel** | present | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **trace** | can | we | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **have** | present | we | the curious result | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent result=Patient | | 7 | **owe** | present | European children | children's earliest laughter | | | | to Hindu wags *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent laughter=Theme to wag=Goal | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/30/93/) - next →: [sentence 95](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/30/95/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/30/)