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title: But there can be little doubt of what M. Cosquin _does_ point out--v… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But there can be little doubt of what M. Cosquin _does_ point out--viz., that the Sicilian story is derived from the Indian one. Who acts: little doubt, M.. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVI. the Son of Seven Queens., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XVI. the Son of Seven Queens., sentence 26

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But there can be little doubt of what M. Cosquin \_does\_ point out--viz., that the Sicilian story is derived from the Indian one.

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**Who acts:** little doubt, M. · **What happens:** be, do, point out, derive · **To what, where:** viz, Sicilian story

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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 (little doubt, M.), 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:pg7128:47:26
# text = But there can be little doubt of what M. Cosquin _does_ point out--viz., that the Sicilian story is derived from the Indian one.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nmod	_	_
9	M.	M.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	Cosquin	Cosquin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	_
14	point	point	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
15	out	out	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	viz	viz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Sicilian	Sicilian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	derived	derive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	parataxis	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **can** | can | little doubt |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | present | M. |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **point out** | infinitive | M. *not said here* | viz |  |  |  | out *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **derive** | present · passive |  | the Sicilian story |  |  |  | from the Indian one | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from one=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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