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title: FOR TEN YEARS, IMPRISONMENT'--a fate harder than poverty; and what c… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: FOR TEN YEARS, IMPRISONMENT'--a fate harder than poverty; and what comes next? ' 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 9

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FOR TEN YEARS, IMPRISONMENT'--a fate harder than poverty; and what comes next? '

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**What happens:** come

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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: 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:pg7128:14:9
# text = FOR TEN YEARS, IMPRISONMENT'--a fate harder than poverty; and what comes next? '
1	FOR	for	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	TEN	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	YEARS	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	IMPRISONMENT	imprisonment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	poverty	poverty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	nsubj	_	_
16	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
17	next	next	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present |  |  |  |  |  | next *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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