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title: It is thus probable, though M. Cosquin does not point this out, that… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It is thus probable, though M. Cosquin does not point this out, that the "envious step-mother" of folk-tales (see my List, _s. v._) was originally an envious co-wife. Who acts: No., M., folk tales, s.. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVI. the Son of Seven Queens., with its depen
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XVI. the Son of Seven Queens., sentence 25

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It is thus probable, though M. Cosquin does not point this out, that the "envious step-mother" of folk-tales (see my List, \_s. v.\_) was originally an envious co-wife.

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**Who acts:** No., M., folk tales, s., my · **What happens:** be, not point out, see, list · **To what, where:** this, List, envious co-wife

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVI. the Son of Seven Queens.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (No., M., folk tales, s.), 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:pg7128:47:25
# text = It is thus probable, though M. Cosquin does not point this out, that the "envious step-mother" of folk-tales (see my List, _s. v._) was originally an envious co-wife.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	probable	probable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	M.	M.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	Cosquin	Cosquin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	point	point	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
12	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	obj	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	envious	envious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
27	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	acl	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	List	list	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
32	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	s.	S.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
34	v.	V.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	33	punct	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
38	originally	originally	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
39	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	envious	envious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	co-wife	co-wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | No. |  |  |  |  | probable, thus *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **point out** | present · do-support | M. | this |  |  |  | the envious step mother of folk tales *obl* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Patient |
| 3 | **see** | infinitive | folk tales *not said here* | my List |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer list=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is a** | past | s. | a envious co-wife |  |  |  | originally *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **list** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom list «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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