Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 25, sentence 5

Of one thing there is practical certainty: the fairy tales that are common to the Indo-European world were invented once for all in a certain locality, and thence spread to all the countries in culture contact with the original source.

Who acts: practical certainty, fairy tales · What happens: be, invent, spread · To what, where: fairy tales

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (practical certainty, fairy tales), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Of	of	ADP	_	3 thing	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 thing	nummod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 is	obl
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 is	expl
5	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 invented	advcl
6	practical	practical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 certainty	amod
7	certainty	certainty	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 is	nsubj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 is	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tales	det
10	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tales	compound
11	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 invented	nsubj:pass
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 common	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 common	cop
14	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tales	acl:relcl
15	to	to	ADP	_	20 world	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 world	det
17	Indo	Indo	X	_	19 European	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 Indo	punct
19	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 world	amod
20	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 common	obl
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 invented	aux:pass
22	invented	invent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
23	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	22 invented	advmod
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 all	case
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 invented	obl
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 locality	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 locality	det
28	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 locality	amod
29	locality	locality	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 all	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 spread	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 spread	cc
32	thence	thence	ADV	_	33 spread	advmod
33	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 invented	conj
34	to	to	ADP	_	37 countries	case
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 countries	det:predet
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 countries	det
37	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 spread	obl
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 contact	case
39	culture	culture	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 contact	compound
40	contact	contact	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 countries	nmod
41	with	with	ADP	_	44 source	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 source	det
43	original	original	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 source	amod
44	source	source	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 contact	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 invented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	practical certainty		there	of one thing	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	the fairy tales			to the European world; common property	tree rules
3	invent	past · passive		the fairy tales		for all; once property	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Result for all=Beneficiary
4	spread	past				to all countries in culture contact with the original source; thence property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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.

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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