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title: When the corpse was not forthcoming he cuttingly remarked, "Is this,… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When the corpse was not forthcoming he cuttingly remarked, "Is this, after all, the return for my deep belief in you? Who acts: corpse, brother, my. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 104

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When the corpse was not forthcoming he cuttingly remarked, "Is this, after all, the return for my deep belief in you?

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**Who acts:** corpse, brother, my · **What happens:** not forthcom, remark, be, believe · **To what, where:** this · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (corpse, brother, my), 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:pg7128:15:104
# text = When the corpse was not forthcoming he cuttingly remarked, "Is this, after all, the return for my deep belief in you?
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	corpse	corpse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	forthcoming	forthcom	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	cuttingly	cuttingly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	remarked	remark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	after	after	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	belief	belief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **forthcom** | past · progressive | the corpse |  |  |  | after all |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **remark** *speech: ask* | participle | brother |  |  |  |  | cuttingly *property* | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | this |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **believe** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  | in you | nom belief «cognition transitive»: poss=agent in=obl |

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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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