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title: These delicacies had completely changed his body into a red, stout,… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: These delicacies had completely changed his body into a red, stout, huge, unwieldy mass of flesh. 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 29

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These delicacies had completely changed his body into a red, stout, huge, unwieldy mass of flesh.

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**What happens:** change · **To what, where:** delicacies, red unwieldy mass

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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: 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:pg7128:15:29
# text = These delicacies had completely changed his body into a red, stout, huge, unwieldy mass of flesh.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	delicacies	delicacy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
10	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	stout	stout	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
16	unwieldy	unwieldy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	mass	mass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | past · perfect · passive |  | this delicacies |  | a red unwieldy mass of flesh |  | completely *property* | tree rules |

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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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