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title: I do not hold with Benfey that all European folk-tales are derived f… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I do not hold with Benfey that all European folk-tales are derived from the Bidpai literature and similar literary products, nor with M. Cosquin that they are all derived from India. Who acts: I, M. Cosquin. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 25, 
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 25, sentence 14

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I do not hold with Benfey that all European folk-tales are derived from the Bidpai literature and similar literary products, nor with M. Cosquin that they are all derived from India.

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**Who acts:** I, M. Cosquin · **What happens:** not hold, derive · **To what, where:** M. Cosquin, European folk tales, Bidpai literature, tales, India

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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 (I, M. Cosquin), 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:pg7128:31:14
# text = I do not hold with Benfey that all European folk-tales are derived from the Bidpai literature and similar literary products, nor with M. Cosquin that they are all derived from India.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Benfey	Benfey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obj	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
9	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	derived	derive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Bidpai	Bidpai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	literary	literary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	products	product	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	27	cc	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	M.	M.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Cosquin	Cosquin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
31	all	all	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	derived	derive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **hold** | present · do-support | I | M. Cosquin |  |  |  | with Benfey | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cosquin=Theme |
| 2 | **derive** | present · passive |  | all European folk tales |  | the Bidpai literature and similar literary products |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **derive** | present · passive | M. Cosquin *not said here* | tales *= tale* |  | India |  | all *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from india=Material |

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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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