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title: To tell you briefly how I came in here: Three days ago I was roaming… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: To tell you briefly how I came in here: Three days ago I was roaming in yonder forest, when I saw a goldsmith passing through it. Who acts: I, goldsmith. 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 cl
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 46

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To tell you briefly how I came in here: Three days ago I was roaming in yonder forest, when I saw a goldsmith passing through it.

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**Who acts:** I, goldsmith · **What happens:** tell, come in, roam, see, pass · **To what, where:** you, forest, goldsmith · **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 (I, goldsmith), 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:pg7128:14:46
# text = To tell you briefly how I came in here: Three days ago I was roaming in yonder forest, when I saw a goldsmith passing through it.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	briefly	briefly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
11	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	roaming	roam	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	goldsmith	goldsmith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	_
27	through	through	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  | you |  |  | briefly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 2 | **come in** | past | I |  |  | here |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **roam** | past · progressive | I |  |  | forest |  | ago *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Trajectory |
| 4 | **see** | past | I | a goldsmith |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer goldsmith=Stimulus |
| 5 | **pass** | gerund | a goldsmith *not said here* |  |  |  |  | through goldsmith | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through it=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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