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title: While thus retracing his steps he reached the ruined well where he h… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: While thus retracing his steps he reached the ruined well where he had released the three brute kings and the goldsmith. Who acts: prophecy. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 109

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While thus retracing his steps he reached the ruined well where he had released the three brute kings and the goldsmith.

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**Who acts:** prophecy · **What happens:** retrace, reach, ruin, release, step · **To what, where:** steps, prophecy

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prophecy), 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:pg7128:14:109
# text = While thus retracing his steps he reached the ruined well where he had released the three brute kings and the goldsmith.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	retracing	retrace	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	ruined	ruin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	ccomp	_	_
10	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
11	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	released	release	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
17	brute	brute	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	goldsmith	goldsmith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **retrace** | gerund |  | prophecy's steps |  |  |  | thus *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **reach** | past | prophecy | prophecy's steps *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **ruin** | participle | prophecy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **release** | past · perfect · passive |  | prophecy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **step** |  | prophecy |  |  |  |  |  | nom step «act transitive»: poss=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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