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title: No Hindu would doubt the fact of animals speaking or of men transfor… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 25, sentence 3

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No Hindu would doubt the fact of animals speaking or of men transformed into plants and animals.

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**Who acts:** Hindu, animals · **What happens:** doubt, speak, transform · **To what, where:** fact, men, plants · **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 (Hindu, animals), 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:pg7128:31:3
# text = No Hindu would doubt the fact of animals speaking or of men transformed into plants and animals.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	Hindu	Hindu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	doubt	doubt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
13	transformed	transform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **doubt** | would | no Hindu | the fact of animals |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fact=Theme |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | animals *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **transform** | participle |  | men *not said here* |  |  |  | into plants and animals *result* | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into plant=Result |

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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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