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title: I was three days ago basking myself in the morning sun, when I saw a… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I was three days ago basking myself in the morning sun, when I saw a rat running before me. Who acts: I, rat. 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 clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 69

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I was three days ago basking myself in the morning sun, when I saw a rat running before me.

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**Who acts:** I, rat · **What happens:** bask, see, run · **To what, where:** myself, morning sun, rat

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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, 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:pg7128:14:69
# text = I was three days ago basking myself in the morning sun, when I saw a rat running before me.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	basking	bask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
19	before	before	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bask** | past · progressive | I | myself |  | the morning sun |  | ago *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | past | I | a rat |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rat=Stimulus |
| 3 | **run** | gerund | a rat *not said here* |  |  |  | before me |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before i=Trajectory |

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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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