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title: It fell with a clang on the floor, and Balna, looking to see what ma… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It fell with a clang on the floor, and Balna, looking to see what made the strange sound, found the little ring tied to the flowers. Who acts: opportunity, Balna. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 28

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It fell with a clang on the floor, and Balna, looking to see what made the strange sound, found the little ring tied to the flowers.

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**Who acts:** opportunity, Balna · **What happens:** fall, look, see, make, find, tie · **To what, where:** floor, strange sound, little ring · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (opportunity, Balna), 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:pg7128:10:28
# text = It fell with a clang on the floor, and Balna, looking to see what made the strange sound, found the little ring tied to the flowers.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	clang	clang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	Balna	Balna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	nsubj	_	_
17	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | opportunity |  |  | the floor |  | with a clang | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on floor=Location |
| 2 | **look** | gerund | Balna |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | Balna *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **make** | past |  | the strange sound |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material sound=Product |
| 5 | **find** | past | opportunity *not said here* | the little ring |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Topic |
| 6 | **tie** | participle |  | the little ring *not said here* |  |  |  | to the flowers | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to flower=Co-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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