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title: Then sitting down near them, she began in wailing tones to upbraid t… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then sitting down near them, she began in wailing tones to upbraid them on account of the treatment she had been subjected to by their wives. Who acts: girl, treatment. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 68

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Then sitting down near them, she began in wailing tones to upbraid them on account of the treatment she had been subjected to by their wives.

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**Who acts:** girl, treatment · **What happens:** sit down, begin, wail, upbraid, subject, account · **To what, where:** tones, brothers, account, girl, treatment

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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 (girl, treatment), 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:pg7128:11:68
# text = Then sitting down near them, she began in wailing tones to upbraid them on account of the treatment she had been subjected to by their wives.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	advcl	_	_
3	down	down	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	near	near	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	wailing	wail	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
11	tones	tone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	upbraid	upbraid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	treatment	treatment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	subjected	subject	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	wives	wife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit down** | gerund | girl *not said here* |  |  |  | then | near brothers *= brother*; down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near they=Location |
| 2 | **begin** | past | girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **wail** | gerund | girl *not said here* | tones |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **upbraid** | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* | brothers *= brother* |  | account of the treatment |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 5 | **subject** | past · perfect · passive | the treatment *not said here* | girl |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **account** |  |  | the treatment |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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