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title: Whatever clothes you find hanging in a house, cut down, dip the piec… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Whatever clothes you find hanging in a house, cut down, dip the pieces in water, and bring the wet bits to our benefactor. Who acts: clothes. 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 11

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Whatever clothes you find hanging in a house, cut down, dip the pieces in water, and bring the wet bits to our benefactor.

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**Who acts:** clothes · **What happens:** find, hang, cut down, dip, bring · **To what, where:** house, pieces, water, wet bits, benefactor

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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 (clothes), 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:pg7128:15:11
# text = Whatever clothes you find hanging in a house, cut down, dip the pieces in water, and bring the wet bits to our benefactor.
1	Whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	det:predet	_	_
2	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	4	nsubj	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
11	down	down	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	dip	dip	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	benefactor	benefactor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present | whatever clothes |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **hang** | gerund | whatever clothes *not said here* |  |  | a house |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in house=Location |
| 3 | **cut down** | participle | whatever clothes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **dip** | infinitive | whatever clothes *not said here* | the pieces |  | water |  |  | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent piece=Theme in water=Trajectory |
| 5 | **bring** | infinitive | whatever clothes *not said here* | the wet bits |  | our benefactor |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bit=Theme to benefactor=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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