--- title: _--Both Mr. Clodd and Mr. Frazer regard the essence of the tale to c… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: _--Both Mr. Clodd and Mr. Frazer regard the essence of the tale to consist in the conception of an external soul or "life-index," and they both trace in this a "survival" of savage philosophy, which they consider occurs among all men at a certain stage of culture. Who acts: Clodd, survival. A senten --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/35/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Indian Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/) / [IV. Punchkin.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/35/) / 13 # Indian Fairy Tales, IV. Punchkin., sentence 13 \_--Both Mr. Clodd and Mr. Frazer regard the essence of the tale to consist in the conception of an external soul or "life-index," and they both trace in this a "survival" of savage philosophy, which they consider occurs among all men at a certain stage of culture. **Who acts:** Clodd, survival · **What happens:** regard, consist, trace, consider, occur, conceive · **To what, where:** essence, conception, this, savage philosophy, certain stage, external soul This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IV. Punchkin.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Clodd, survival), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7128:35:13 # text = _--Both Mr. Clodd and Mr. Frazer regard the essence of the tale to consist in the conception of an external soul or "life-index," and they both trace in this a "survival" of savage philosophy, which they consider occurs among all men at a certain stage of culture. 1 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 -- -- PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Both both CCONJ CC _ 5 cc:preconj _ _ 4 Mr. Mr. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:desc _ _ 5 Clodd Clodd PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 Mr. Mr. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod:desc _ _ 8 Frazer Frazer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 9 regard regard VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 essence essence NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 tale tale NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 consist consist VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 conception conception NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 external external ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 soul soul NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 index index NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 34 nsubj _ _ 34 trace trace VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 48 advcl _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 34 obl _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 " " PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 survival survival NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 savage savage ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 philosophy philosophy NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 45 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 47 obj _ _ 46 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 47 consider consider VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 acl:relcl _ _ 48 occurs occur VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 49 among among ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 51 det _ _ 51 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 obl _ _ 52 at at ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 53 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 54 certain certain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 55 amod _ _ 55 stage stage NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obl _ _ 56 of of ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 57 culture culture NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 58 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **regard** | present | Clodd Mr. and Frazer Mr. | the essence of the tale | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent essence=Theme | | 2 | **consist** | to-infinitive | Clodd Mr. and Frazer Mr. *not said here* | | | the conception of a external soul or life index | | | tree rules | | 3 | **trace** | present | Clodd | | | this | | | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in this=Destination | | 4 | **consider** | present | Clodd | savage philosophy | | | | | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent which=Attribute | | 5 | **occur** | present | a survival of savage philosophy | | | a certain stage of culture | | among all men | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme among man=Location | | 6 | **conceive** | | | a external soul or life index | | | | | nom conception «cognition transitive»: of=patient | | 7 | **survive** *in a quote* | | | savage philosophy | | | | | nom survival «state transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/35/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/35/14/) - ↑ back to [IV. Punchkin.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/35/)