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title: Now at that time the water used to run short at the dry season in a… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now at that time the water used to run short at the dry season in a certain pond, not over large, in which there were a good many fish. Who acts: time. 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 clau
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 73

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Now at that time the water used to run short at the dry season in a certain pond, not over large, in which there were a good many fish.

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**Who acts:** time · **What happens:** use, run, not be · **To what, where:** water

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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 (time), 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:pg7128:11:73
# text = Now at that time the water used to run short at the dry season in a certain pond, not over large, in which there were a good many fish.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
10	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
21	over	over	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obl	_	_
26	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	27	expl	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | participle · passive | that time *not said here* | the water |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **run** | to-infinitive | that time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | short *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | large *property* | 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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