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title: The tiger consented, and the Brahman began the whole story over agai… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The tiger consented, and the Brahman began the whole story over again, not missing a single detail, and spinning as long a yarn as possible. Who acts: tiger, Brahman. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 112

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The tiger consented, and the Brahman began the whole story over again, not missing a single detail, and spinning as long a yarn as possible.

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**Who acts:** tiger, Brahman · **What happens:** consent, begin, not miss, spin · **To what, where:** whole story, single detail, yarn

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tiger, Brahman), 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:pg7128:13:112
# text = The tiger consented, and the Brahman began the whole story over again, not missing a single detail, and spinning as long a yarn as possible.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tiger	tiger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	consented	consent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Brahman	Brahman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	over	over	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	again	again	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	missing	miss	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	detail	detail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	spinning	spin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
23	as	as	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	yarn	yarn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
28	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consent** | past | the tiger |  |  |  |  |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **begin** | past | the Brahman | the whole story |  |  | again |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Eventuality |
| 3 | **not** **miss** | gerund | the Brahman *not said here* | a single detail |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer detail=Stimulus |
| 4 | **spin** | gerund | the Brahman *not said here* | a yarn |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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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