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title: You can place more faith in me, a tiger, though I feast sometimes up… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: You can place more faith in me, a tiger, though I feast sometimes upon men, in a serpent, whose sting makes your blood cold the very next moment, or in a rat, which does a thousand pieces of mischief in your house. Who acts: I, sting, rat. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon W
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 55

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You can place more faith in me, a tiger, though I feast sometimes upon men, in a serpent, whose sting makes your blood cold the very next moment, or in a rat, which does a thousand pieces of mischief in your house.

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**Who acts:** I, sting, rat · **What happens:** feast, make, do · **To what, where:** men, serpent, blood, thousand pieces, house

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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, sting, rat), 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:pg7128:14:55
# text = You can place more faith in me, a tiger, though I feast sometimes upon men, in a serpent, whose sting makes your blood cold the very next moment, or in a rat, which does a thousand pieces of mischief in your house.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	tiger	tiger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	feast	feast	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	17	advmod	_	_
16	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	sting	sting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	very	very	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	40	nsubj	_	_
40	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	parataxis	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	43	nummod	_	_
43	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	mischief	mischief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feast** | present | I | men |  | a serpent |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | present | sting | your blood |  |  |  | cold *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset blood=Product |
| 3 | **do** | present | a rat | a thousand pieces of mischief |  | your house |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Eventuality |

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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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