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title: Now if he should really put me into the pond, it would be capital; b… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now if he should really put me into the pond, it would be capital; but if he doesn't--then I'll cut his throat, and kill him!" Who acts: fellow, pond, I. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 110

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Now if he should really put me into the pond, it would be capital; but if he doesn't--then I'll cut his throat, and kill him!"

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**Who acts:** fellow, pond, I · **What happens:** put, be, not do, cut, kill · **To what, where:** me, pond, throat, fellow

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fellow, pond, I), 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:pg7128:11:110
# text = Now if he should really put me into the pond, it would be capital; but if he doesn't--then I'll cut his throat, and kill him!"
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	really	really	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
15	capital	capital	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | should | fellow |  | me | the pond | now |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent i=Goal |
| 2 | **is** | would | pond |  |  |  |  | capital *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | fellow |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **cut** | future | I | fellow's throat |  |  | then |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throat=Product |
| 5 | **kill** | infinitive | fellow *not said here* | fellow |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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