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title: He, finding it impossible to escape my claws, jumped into this well,… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He, finding it impossible to escape my claws, jumped into this well, and is living to this moment in the very bottom of it. Who acts: word, 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 claus
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 48

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He, finding it impossible to escape my claws, jumped into this well, and is living to this moment in the very bottom of it.

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**Who acts:** word, goldsmith · **What happens:** find, escape, jump, live · **To what, where:** goldsmith, claws, this, bottom

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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 (word, 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:pg7128:14:48
# text = He, finding it impossible to escape my claws, jumped into this well, and is living to this moment in the very bottom of it.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	claws	claw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	obl	_	_
14	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	very	very	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | gerund | word | goldsmith |  |  |  | impossible *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 2 | **escape** | to-infinitive | goldsmith *not said here* | my claws |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme claw=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **jump** | past | word *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into this *result*; well *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into this=Result |
| 4 | **live** | present · progressive | word *not said here* |  |  | the bottom of goldsmith | moment |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bottom=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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