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title: All the rocks and trees you see here were living people once, and th… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: All the rocks and trees you see here were living people once, and the Magician turned them to what they now are. Who acts: you, rocks, Magician. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 14

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All the rocks and trees you see here were living people once, and the Magician turned them to what they now are.

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**Who acts:** you, rocks, Magician · **What happens:** see, live, turn, be · **To what, where:** rocks, people

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, rocks, Magician), 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:pg7128:10:14
# text = All the rocks and trees you see here were living people once, and the Magician turned them to what they now are.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Magician	Magician	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	obl	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | you | all rocks and trees *not said here* |  | here |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rock=Stimulus |
| 2 | **live** | past · progressive | all rocks and trees | people |  |  |  | once *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme people=Location |
| 3 | **turn** | past | the Magician | people |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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