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title: The theme is, however, equally frequent in European folk-tales: see… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The theme is, however, equally frequent in European folk-tales: see my List of Incidents, _Proc. Who acts: theme, European folk tales, my. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, II. Princess Labam., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, II. Princess Labam., sentence 11

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The theme is, however, equally frequent in European folk-tales: see my List of Incidents, \_Proc.

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**Who acts:** theme, European folk tales, my · **What happens:** be, see, list · **To what, where:** European folk tales, List, Incidents

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, II. Princess Labam.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (theme, European folk tales, my), 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:pg7128:33:11
# text = The theme is, however, equally frequent in European folk-tales: see my List of Incidents, _Proc.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	theme	theme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	however	however	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	equally	equally	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	frequent	frequent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
15	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	List	list	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Incidents	incident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Proc	Proc	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the theme |  |  | European folk tales |  | equally, frequent, however *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive | European folk tales *not said here* | my List of Incidents |  |  |  | Proc *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer list=Stimulus |
| 3 | **list** |  | my | Incidents |  |  |  |  | nom list «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |

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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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