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title: He had collected a quantity of rice by begging, and after having din… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He had collected a quantity of rice by begging, and after having dined off it, he filled a pot with what was left over. Who acts: n. 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 84

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He had collected a quantity of rice by begging, and after having dined off it, he filled a pot with what was left over.

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**Who acts:** n · **What happens:** collect, beg, have, dine, fill, leave over · **To what, where:** quantity, pot

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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 (n), 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:pg7128:10:84
# text = He had collected a quantity of rice by begging, and after having dined off it, he filled a pot with what was left over.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	collected	collect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	quantity	quantity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	begging	beg	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
12	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
14	dined	dine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	xcomp	_	_
15	off	off	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	advcl	_	_
26	over	over	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **collect** | past · perfect | n | a quantity of rice |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quantity=Theme |
| 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | gerund | n *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | gerund | n *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **dine** | participle | n *not said here* |  |  |  |  | off rice | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **fill** | past | n | a pot |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pot=Patient |
| 6 | **leave over** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | over *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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