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title: Now cast your eye upon the heap of fish-bones lying at the root of y… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now cast your eye upon the heap of fish-bones lying at the root of yonder Varana-tree. Who acts: you, fish bones. 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 clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 121

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Now cast your eye upon the heap of fish-bones lying at the root of yonder Varana-tree.

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**Who acts:** you, fish bones · **What happens:** cast, lie · **To what, where:** eye, heap, root

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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 (you, fish bones), 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:pg7128:11:121
# text = Now cast your eye upon the heap of fish-bones lying at the root of yonder Varana-tree.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	cast	cast	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	heap	heap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
12	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	Varana	Varana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cast** | imperative | you *not said here* | your eye |  | the heap of fish bones | now |  | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent eye=Theme upon heap=Destination |
| 2 | **lie** | gerund | fish bones *not said here* |  |  | the root of Varana tree |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at root=Location |

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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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