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title: While going along he spoke to himself thus: "These beasts have been… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: While going along he spoke to himself thus: "These beasts have been very faithful in their assistance. Who acts: Gangazara, beasts, diamonds. 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 120

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While going along he spoke to himself thus: "These beasts have been very faithful in their assistance.

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**Who acts:** Gangazara, beasts, diamonds · **What happens:** go along, speak, be, assist · **To what, where:** Gangazara, assistance · **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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gangazara, beasts, diamonds), 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:pg7128:14:120
# text = While going along he spoke to himself thus: "These beasts have been very faithful in their assistance.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
3	along	along	ADP	IN	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obl	_	_
8	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	cop	_	_
15	very	very	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	assistance	assistance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go along** | gerund | Gangazara *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Gangazara |  | Gangazara |  |  | thus *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to himself=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present · perfect | this beasts |  |  | diamonds's assistance |  | faithful *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **assist** *in a quote* |  | diamonds *= diamond* |  |  |  |  |  | nom assistance «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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