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title: But she put her hand in her pocket and pulled out a tiny knife, only… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But she put her hand in her pocket and pulled out a tiny knife, only as long as her hand was broad, and this knife unfolded itself in one instant till it was such a length! and then Laili made a great sweep with her arm and her long, long knife, and off came Chumman Basa's head at one touch. Who act
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 54

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But she put her hand in her pocket and pulled out a tiny knife, only as long as her hand was broad, and this knife unfolded itself in one instant till it was such a length! and then Laili made a great sweep with her arm and her long, long knife, and off came Chumman Basa's head at one touch.

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**Who acts:** Laili, hand, knife, head · **What happens:** put out, pull out, be, unfold, make, come · **To what, where:** hand, pocket, one instant, length, great sweep, one touch

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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, hand, knife, head), 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:pg7128:13:54
# text = But she put her hand in her pocket and pulled out a tiny knife, only as long as her hand was broad, and this knife unfolded itself in one instant till it was such a length! and then Laili made a great sweep with her arm and her long, long knife, and off came Chumman Basa's head at one touch.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	only	only	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	unfolded	unfold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
29	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	28	obj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
36	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	38	det:predet	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
41	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	43	advmod	_	_
42	Laili	Laili	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
43	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	sweep	sweep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
47	with	with	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
51	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	55	nmod:poss	_	_
52	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
54	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
58	off	off	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	_
59	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
60	Chumman	Chumman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	63	nmod:poss	_	_
61	Basa	Basa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	60	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	's	's	PART	POS	_	60	case	_	_
63	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	nsubj	_	_
64	at	at	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
65	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	66	nummod	_	_
66	touch	touch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put out** | past | Laili | Laili's hand |  | Laili's pocket |  | long *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent hand=Asset knife=Goal |
| 2 | **pull out** | participle | Laili *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | Laili's hand |  |  |  |  | broad *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **unfold** | past | this knife | hand |  | one instant |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent itself=Patient |
| 5 | **is a** | past | hand | such length |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **make** | past | Laili | a great sweep |  |  | then | with Laili's arm and Laili's long long knife | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweep=Product |
| 7 | **come** | past | Chumman's head |  |  | one touch |  | off *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at touch=Location |

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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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