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title: The whole incident, indeed, is a striking example of the dangers of… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The whole incident, indeed, is a striking example of the dangers of the anthropological method of dealing with folk-tales before some attempt is made to settle the questions of origin and diffusion. Who acts: whole incident, anthropological method, folk tales, attempt. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Ta
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XXVIII. How Wicked Sons Were Duped., sentence 20

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The whole incident, indeed, is a striking example of the dangers of the anthropological method of dealing with folk-tales before some attempt is made to settle the questions of origin and diffusion.

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**Who acts:** whole incident, anthropological method, folk tales, attempt · **What happens:** strike, be, deal, make, settle, question · **To what, where:** striking example, attempt, questions, origin

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXVIII. How Wicked Sons Were Duped.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whole incident, anthropological method, folk tales, attempt), 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:pg7128:59:20
# text = The whole incident, indeed, is a striking example of the dangers of the anthropological method of dealing with folk-tales before some attempt is made to settle the questions of origin and diffusion.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	incident	incident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	striking	strike	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	amod	_	_
10	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	dangers	danger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	anthropological	anthropological	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	method	method	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	dealing	deal	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
24	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
26	attempt	attempt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	settle	settle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	diffusion	diffusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the whole incident | a striking example |  |  |  | of the dangers of the anthropological method | tree rules |
| 3 | **deal** | gerund | the anthropological method *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with folk tales | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with tale=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | present · passive | folk tales *not said here* | some attempt |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **settle** | to-infinitive | some attempt *not said here* | the questions of origin and diffusion |  |  |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme question=Location |
| 6 | **question** |  |  | origin and diffusion |  |  |  |  | nom question «communication 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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