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title: _), has shown the wide spread of the theme both in early Indian lite… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _), has shown the wide spread of the theme both in early Indian literature (though probably there derived from the folk) and in modern European folk literature. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXIV. Why the Fish Laughed., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XXIV. Why the Fish Laughed., sentence 24

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\_), has shown the wide spread of the theme both in early Indian literature (though probably there derived from the folk) and in modern European folk literature.

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**What happens:** show, derive, spread · **To what, where:** wide spread, folk, theme

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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: 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:pg7128:55:24
# text = _), has shown the wide spread of the theme both in early Indian literature (though probably there derived from the folk) and in modern European folk literature.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	spread	spread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	theme	theme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	both	both	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
21	derived	derive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
29	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present · perfect |  | the wide spread of the theme |  |  |  | both *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent spread=Recipient |
| 2 | **derive** | participle |  |  |  | the folk; there |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent from folk=Material |
| 3 | **spread** |  |  | the theme |  |  |  |  | nom spread «event 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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