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title: Of one thing there is practical certainty: the fairy tales that are… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Of one thing there is practical certainty: the fairy tales that are common to the Indo-European world were invented once for all in a certain locality, and thence spread to all the countries in culture contact with the original source. Who acts: practical certainty, fairy tales. A sentence of «India
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 25, sentence 5

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Of one thing there is practical certainty: the fairy tales that are common to the Indo-European world were invented once for all in a certain locality, and thence spread to all the countries in culture contact with the original source.

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**Who acts:** practical certainty, fairy tales · **What happens:** be, invent, spread · **To what, where:** fairy tales

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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 (practical certainty, fairy tales), 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:pg7128:31:5
# text = Of one thing there is practical certainty: the fairy tales that are common to the Indo-European world were invented once for all in a certain locality, and thence spread to all the countries in culture contact with the original source.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
6	practical	practical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	certainty	certainty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	Indo	Indo	X	AFX	_	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	invented	invent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
23	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	22	advmod	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	obl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	locality	locality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	thence	thence	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	37	det:predet	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	culture	culture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	contact	contact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
41	with	with	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | practical certainty |  |  | there |  | of one thing | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | the fairy tales |  |  |  |  | to the European world; common *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **invent** | past · passive |  | the fairy tales |  |  |  | for all; once *property* | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Result for all=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **spread** | past |  |  |  |  |  | to all countries in culture contact with the original source; thence *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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