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title: _--Here we have a further example of a whole formula, or series of i… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--Here we have a further example of a whole formula, or series of incidents, common to most European collections, found in India, and in a quarter, too, where European influence is little likely to penetrate. Who acts: we, European influence. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XXIV. Why the Fish Laughed., sentence 17

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\_--Here we have a further example of a whole formula, or series of incidents, common to most European collections, found in India, and in a quarter, too, where European influence is little likely to penetrate.

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**Who acts:** we, European influence · **What happens:** have, find, be, penetrate, exemplify · **To what, where:** further example, most European collections, India, whole formula

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXIV. Why the Fish Laughed.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, European influence), 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:pg7128:55:17
# text = _--Here we have a further example of a whole formula, or series of incidents, common to most European collections, found in India, and in a quarter, too, where European influence is little likely to penetrate.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
4	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	further	further	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	formula	formula	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	series	series	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	incidents	incident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	parataxis	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	23	amod	_	_
22	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	collections	collection	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	too	too	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
36	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	41	advmod	_	_
37	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	influence	influence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
39	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
40	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	conj	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	penetrate	penetrate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | we | a further example of a whole formula or series of incidents |  | here |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent example=Patient |
| 2 | **find** | participle |  | most European collections *not said here* |  | India |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | European influence |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **penetrate** | to-infinitive | European influence *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **exemplify** |  |  | a whole formula or series of incidents |  |  |  |  | nom example «cognition transitive»: 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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