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title: _--Apart from the interest of its wide travels, and its appearance i… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--Apart from the interest of its wide travels, and its appearance in the standard mediæval History of England by Matthew Paris, the modern story shows the remarkable persistence of folk-tales in the popular mind. Who acts: interest, modern story. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs,
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# Indian Fairy Tales, X. the Soothsayer's Son., sentence 24

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\_--Apart from the interest of its wide travels, and its appearance in the standard mediæval History of England by Matthew Paris, the modern story shows the remarkable persistence of folk-tales in the popular mind.

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**Who acts:** interest, modern story · **What happens:** travel, show · **To what, where:** appearance, remarkable persistence

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, X. the Soothsayer's Son.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (interest, modern story), 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:pg7128:41:24
# text = _--Apart from the interest of its wide travels, and its appearance in the standard mediæval History of England by Matthew Paris, the modern story shows the remarkable persistence of folk-tales in the popular mind.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nmod	_	_
10	travels	travel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	standard	standard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	mediæval	mediæval	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	History	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Matthew	Matthew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
24	Paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	persistence	persistence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **travel** | present | the interest of interest's wide | interest's appearance in the standard mediæval History of England |  |  |  | by Matthew | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by matthew=Trajectory |
| 2 | **show** | present | the modern story | the remarkable persistence of folk tales in the popular mind |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent persistence=Recipient |

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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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