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title: And generally, so far as the incidents are marvellous and of true fa… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And generally, so far as the incidents are marvellous and of true fairy-tale character, the presumption is in favour of India, because of the vitality of animism or metempsychosis in India throughout all historic time. Who acts: incidents, presumption. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Ja
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 25, sentence 2

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And generally, so far as the incidents are marvellous and of true fairy-tale character, the presumption is in favour of India, because of the vitality of animism or metempsychosis in India throughout all historic time.

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**Who acts:** incidents, presumption · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** favour

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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 (incidents, presumption), 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:pg7128:31:2
# text = And generally, so far as the incidents are marvellous and of true fairy-tale character, the presumption is in favour of India, because of the vitality of animism or metempsychosis in India throughout all historic time.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	incidents	incident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
14	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	presumption	presumption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	30	case	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	fixed	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	vitality	vitality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	animism	animism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	metempsychosis	metempsychosis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	40	det	_	_
39	historic	historic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the incidents |  |  |  |  | far, generally, marvellous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | the presumption |  |  | favour |  | of India | tree rules |

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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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