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title: He hung the pot on a peg on the wall, placed his couch beneath, and… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He hung the pot on a peg on the wall, placed his couch beneath, and looking intently at it all the night, he thought, "Ah, that pot is indeed brimful of rice. Who acts: n, pot. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, with its dependency tree and the
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 85

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He hung the pot on a peg on the wall, placed his couch beneath, and looking intently at it all the night, he thought, "Ah, that pot is indeed brimful of rice.

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**Who acts:** n, pot · **What happens:** hang, place, look, think, be · **To what, where:** pot, peg, couch beneath · **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 (n, pot), 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:pg7128:10:85
# text = He hung the pot on a peg on the wall, placed his couch beneath, and looking intently at it all the night, he thought, "Ah, that pot is indeed brimful of rice.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	peg	peg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	couch	couch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	beneath	beneath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
18	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
19	intently	intently	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
22	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	24	det:predet	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	36	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
32	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	det	_	_
33	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
35	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	brimful	brimful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | past | n | the pot |  | a peg on the wall |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pot=Theme on peg=Destination |
| 2 | **place** | past | n *not said here* | n's couch beneath |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent beneath=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | gerund | n *not said here* |  |  |  | night | at Pot; intently *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | n |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | that pot |  |  |  |  | of rice; brimful, indeed *property* | 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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