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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 92

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So the Brahman first asked a \_pipal\_ tree what it thought of the matter, but the \_pipal\_ tree replied coldly, "What have you to complain about?

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**Who acts:** Brahman, pipal, you · **What happens:** ask, think, reply, have, complain · **To what, where:** \_ pipal, tree, pipal tree · **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 (Brahman, pipal, you), 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:pg7128:13:92
# text = So the Brahman first asked a _pipal_ tree what it thought of the matter, but the _pipal_ tree replied coldly, "What have you to complain about?
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Brahman	Brahman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	advmod	_	_
5	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	pipal	pipal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	_
10	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	obj	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	pipal	pipal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	_
23	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
24	replied	reply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	coldly	coldly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	29	obj	_	_
29	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	complain	complain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
33	about	about	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the Brahman | a \_ pipal |  |  |  | tree *obl*; first *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pipal=Recipient |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | pipal | tree |  |  |  | of the matter | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
| 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | participle |  | pipal tree *not said here* |  |  |  | coldly *property* | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **have** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **complain** *speech: other* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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