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title: Thus comforting his protector in trouble, he advised him to pluck up… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus comforting his protector in trouble, he advised him to pluck up courage, and took leave of him. Who acts: calamity, prince. 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 24

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Thus comforting his protector in trouble, he advised him to pluck up courage, and took leave of him.

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**Who acts:** calamity, prince · **What happens:** comfort, advise, pluck up, take · **To what, where:** protector, trouble, prince, courage, leave

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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 (calamity, prince), 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:pg7128:15:24
# text = Thus comforting his protector in trouble, he advised him to pluck up courage, and took leave of him.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	comforting	comfort	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	protector	protector	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	advised	advise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	pluck	pluck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
18	leave	leave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **comfort** | gerund | calamity *not said here* | calamity's protector |  | trouble |  | thus *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus protector=Experiencer |
| 2 | **advise** *speech: other* | past | calamity | prince |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **pluck up** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | prince *not said here* | courage |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Patient |
| 4 | **take** | past | calamity *not said here* | leave of calamity |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=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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