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title: "The villain, though exceeding clever, Shall prosper not by his vill… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "The villain, though exceeding clever, Shall prosper not by his villainy. Who acts: villain. 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 135

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"The villain, though exceeding clever, Shall prosper not by his villainy.

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**Who acts:** villain · **What happens:** exceed, not prosper · **To what, where:** villainy

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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 (villain), 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:pg7128:11:135
# text = "The villain, though exceeding clever, Shall prosper not by his villainy.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	villain	villain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	exceeding	exceed	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	appos	_	_
7	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	Shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	prosper	prosper	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	villainy	villainy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exceed** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | clever *property* | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **not** **prosper** *in a quote* | shall | the villain | villain's villainy |  |  |  |  | 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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