--- title: Thus, we find the incident of an "external soul" (Life Index, Captai… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Thus, we find the incident of an "external soul" (Life Index, Captain Temple very appropriately named it) in Asbjornsen's _Norse Tales_ and in Miss Frere's _Old Deccan Days_ (see Notes on _Punchkin_). Who acts: we, Life Index. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Ha --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/30/96/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Indian Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/) / [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/30/) / 96 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 96 Thus, we find the incident of an "external soul" (Life Index, Captain Temple very appropriately named it) in Asbjornsen's \_Norse Tales\_ and in Miss Frere's \_Old Deccan Days\_ (see Notes on \_Punchkin\_). **Who acts:** we, Life Index · **What happens:** find, name, see · **To what, where:** incident, soul, Norse Tales, Notes, Punchkin 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 (we, Life Index), 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:pg7128:30:96 # text = Thus, we find the incident of an "external soul" (Life Index, Captain Temple very appropriately named it) in Asbjornsen's _Norse Tales_ and in Miss Frere's _Old Deccan Days_ (see Notes on _Punchkin_). 1 Thus thus ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 incident incident NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 external external ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 soul soul NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 13 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 Life Life PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 Index Index PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 Captain Captain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 Temple Temple PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 19 very very ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 20 appropriately appropriately ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 named name VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 21 punct _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 25 Asbjornsen Asbjornsen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 26 's 's PART POS _ 25 case _ _ 27 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 Norse norse ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 Tales Tale PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 29 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 Miss Miss PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 34 Frere Frere PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 35 's 's PART POS _ 34 case _ _ 36 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 Old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 38 Deccan Deccan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 Days Day PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 33 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 40 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 4 discourse _ _ 41 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 see see VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 43 Notes note NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obj _ _ 44 on on ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 Punchkin Punchkin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | present | we | the incident of a external soul | | | | thus *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent incident=Topic | | 2 | **name** | participle | Life Index and Captain Temple *not said here* | soul | | Asbjornsen's Norse Tales and Miss | | appropriately *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **see** | infinitive | | Notes | | Punchkin | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer note=Stimulus | 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 95](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/30/95/) - next →: [sentence 97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/30/97/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/30/)