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title: Exactly in the same way, Perrault's tales have ousted the older Engl… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Exactly in the same way, Perrault's tales have ousted the older English folk-tales, and it is with the utmost difficulty that one can get true English fairy tales because _Red Riding Hood_, _Cinderella_, _Blue Beard_, _Puss in Boots_ and the rest, have survived in the struggle for existence among En
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 25, sentence 11

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Exactly in the same way, Perrault's tales have ousted the older English folk-tales, and it is with the utmost difficulty that one can get true English fairy tales because \_Red Riding Hood\_, \_Cinderella\_, \_Blue Beard\_, \_Puss in Boots\_ and the rest, have survived in the struggle for existence among English folk-tales.

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**Who acts:** tales, many, utmost difficulty, Perrault · **What happens:** oust, be, get, survive, tell · **To what, where:** older English folk tales, same way, true English fairy tales, rest, struggle · **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 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tales, many, utmost difficulty, Perrault), 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:pg7128:31:11
# text = Exactly in the same way, Perrault's tales have ousted the older English folk-tales, and it is with the utmost difficulty that one can get true English fairy tales because _Red Riding Hood_, _Cinderella_, _Blue Beard_, _Puss in Boots_ and the rest, have survived in the struggle for existence among English folk-tales.
1	Exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	Perrault	Perrault	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	ousted	oust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
13	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	amod	_	_
14	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	utmost	utmost	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
27	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl	_	_
30	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
31	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
34	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
35	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	Red	Red	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	Riding	Riding	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	Hood	Hood	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	Cinderella	Cinderella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
45	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	Blue	Blue	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	Beard	Beard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	Puss	puss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	appos	_	_
52	in	in	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	Boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	38	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
59	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	60	aux	_	_
60	survived	survive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	54	conj	_	_
61	in	in	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
62	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
63	struggle	struggle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obl	_	_
64	for	for	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
65	existence	existence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	nmod	_	_
66	among	among	ADP	IN	_	70	case	_	_
67	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	70	amod	_	_
68	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	70	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	68	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	60	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **oust** | present · perfect | Perrault's tales | the older English folk tales |  | the same way |  | exactly *property* | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | many |  |  |  |  | with the utmost difficulty | tree rules |
| 3 | **get** | can | the utmost difficulty | true English fairy tales |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tale=Stimulus |
| 4 | **survive** | present · perfect · passive |  | the rest |  | the struggle for existence |  | among English folk tales | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Circumstance |
| 5 | **tell** |  | Perrault |  |  |  |  |  | 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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