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title: The question is as to the source of the tales that are common to all… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The question is as to the source of the tales that are common to all European children, and increasing evidence seems to show that this common nucleus is derived from India and India alone. Who acts: question, tales, increasing. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted 
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 25, sentence 8

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The question is as to the source of the tales that are common to all European children, and increasing evidence seems to show that this common nucleus is derived from India and India alone.

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**Who acts:** question, tales, increasing · **What happens:** be, increase, seem, show, derive · **To what, where:** evidence, common nucleus, India · **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 (question, tales, increasing), 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:pg7128:31:8
# text = The question is as to the source of the tales that are common to all European children, and increasing evidence seems to show that this common nucleus is derived from India and India alone.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
16	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	increasing	increase	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	csubj	_	_
21	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
26	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
27	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	nucleus	nucleus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	derived	derive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	ccomp	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
35	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the question |  |  |  |  | as the source; of the tales | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | the tales |  |  |  |  | to all European children; common *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **increase** | gerund |  | evidence |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer evidence=Patient |
| 4 | **seem** | present | increasing |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 5 | **show** | to-infinitive | increasing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **derive** | present · passive |  | this common nucleus |  | India and India |  | alone *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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