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title: "Take me, then," said Laili to Chumman Basa; so he came quite close… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Take me, then," said Laili to Chumman Basa; so he came quite close and put out his hand to take hers to lift her off her horse. Who acts: Laili, Chumman. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 53

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"Take me, then," said Laili to Chumman Basa; so he came quite close and put out his hand to take hers to lift her off her horse.

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**Who acts:** Laili, Chumman · **What happens:** take, say, come, put out, lift · **To what, where:** Laili, Chumman, hand · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Laili, Chumman), 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:pg7128:13:53
# text = "Take me, then," said Laili to Chumman Basa; so he came quite close and put out his hand to take hers to lift her off her horse.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Laili	Laili	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Chumman	Chumman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	Basa	Basa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
17	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
26	hers	her	PRON	PRP	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	lift	lift	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
29	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	off	off	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  | Laili |  | then |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Laili |  | Chumman |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to chumman=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **come** | past | Chumman |  |  |  |  | close *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **put out** | participle | Chumman *not said here* | Chumman's hand |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal |
| 5 | **take** | to-infinitive | Chumman *not said here* |  | Laili |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument her=Destination |
| 6 | **lift** | to-infinitive | Chumman *not said here* | Laili |  |  |  | off Laili's horse | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme off horse=Destination |

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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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