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description: On the third lies a rat, also half-famished, and when you again begin to draw water these may request you first to release them. Who acts: rat, you, these. 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 
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 51

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On the third lies a rat, also half-famished, and when you again begin to draw water these may request you first to release them.

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**Who acts:** rat, you, these · **What happens:** lie, famish, begin, draw, request, release · **To what, where:** third, water, you, claws

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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 (rat, you, these), 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:pg7128:14:51
# text = On the third lies a rat, also half-famished, and when you again begin to draw water these may request you first to release them.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	obl	_	_
4	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	also	also	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	famished	famish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	17	mark	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	again	again	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	begin	begin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	draw	draw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	23	nsubj	_	_
22	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	request	request	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	23	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	release	release	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | present | a rat |  |  | the third |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on third=Location |
| 2 | **famish** | participle | a rat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **begin** | present | you |  |  |  | again |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **draw** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | water |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
| 5 | **request** | may | these |  | you |  |  | first *property* | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 6 | **release** | to-infinitive | these *not said here* | claws *= claw* |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer they=Source |

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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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