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title: He wandered about begging with his family, and at last he reached a… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He wandered about begging with his family, and at last he reached a certain city, and entered the service of a rich householder called Sthuladatta. Who acts: Brahman. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 116

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He wandered about begging with his family, and at last he reached a certain city, and entered the service of a rich householder called Sthuladatta.

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**Who acts:** Brahman · **What happens:** wander, beg, reach, enter, call, service · **To what, where:** certain city, last, service, rich householder · **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 (Brahman), 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:pg7128:15:116
# text = He wandered about begging with his family, and at last he reached a certain city, and entered the service of a rich householder called Sthuladatta.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	begging	beg	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	householder	householder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
26	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
27	Sthuladatta	Sthuladatta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wander** | past | Brahman |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | gerund | Brahman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Brahman's family | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **reach** | past | Brahman | a certain city |  | last |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent city=Theme at last=Asset |
| 4 | **enter** | past | Brahman *not said here* | the service of a rich householder |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme service=Destination |
| 5 | **call** | participle |  | a rich householder *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **service** |  |  | a rich householder |  |  |  |  | nom service «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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