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title: So he let down his vessel again, which was now caught hold of by the… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So he let down his vessel again, which was now caught hold of by the serpent, who addressed him thus: "Oh, my protector! Who acts: thirst, vessel, serpent. 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 61

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So he let down his vessel again, which was now caught hold of by the serpent, who addressed him thus: "Oh, my protector!

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**Who acts:** thirst, vessel, serpent · **What happens:** let down, catch, be, address · **To what, where:** vessel, caught hold, thirst

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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 (thirst, vessel, serpent), 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:pg7128:14:61
# text = So he let down his vessel again, which was now caught hold of by the serpent, who addressed him thus: "Oh, my protector!
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
12	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	addressed	address	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	28	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	protector	protector	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let down** | past | thirst | thirst's vessel and caught hold |  |  |  | my protector *obl* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vessel=Theme |
| 2 | **catch** | participle |  |  |  |  | now |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | thirst's vessel and caught hold | caught hold |  |  |  | of the serpent | tree rules |
| 4 | **address** | past | the serpent |  | thirst |  |  | thus *property* | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination |

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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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