--- title: When the Genius who lived in the Varana-tree saw this strange affair… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: When the Genius who lived in the Varana-tree saw this strange affair, he made the wood resound with his plaudits, uttering in a pleasant voice the verse: Who acts: Genius, wood. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, with its dependency tree and th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/134/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Indian Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/) / [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/) / 134 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 134 When the Genius who lived in the Varana-tree saw this strange affair, he made the wood resound with his plaudits, uttering in a pleasant voice the verse: **Who acts:** Genius, wood · **What happens:** live, see, make, resound, utter · **To what, where:** Varana tree, strange affair, pleasant voice 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 (Genius, wood), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7128:11:134 # text = When the Genius who lived in the Varana-tree saw this strange affair, he made the wood resound with his plaudits, uttering in a pleasant voice the verse: 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Genius Genius PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 4 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 Varana Varana PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 12 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 14 det _ _ 13 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 affair affair NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 resound resound VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 plaudits plaudit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 uttering utter VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 pleasant pleasant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 verse verse NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 32 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | past | the Genius | | | the Varana tree | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tree=Location | | 2 | **see** | past | the Genius | this strange affair | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer affair=Stimulus | | 3 | **make** | past | Genius | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **resound** | infinitive | the wood | | | | | with wood's plaudits | vn sound\_existence-47.4 «NP.location V NP.theme»: agent=Location with plaudit=Theme | | 5 | **utter** *speech: other* | gerund | the wood *not said here* | | | a pleasant voice the verse | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 133](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/133/) - next →: [sentence 135](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/135/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/)