--- title: As soon as all were ready, Gangazara took a vessel full of water and… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: As soon as all were ready, Gangazara took a vessel full of water and sprinkled it over them all, thinking only of his snake-king and tiger-king. Who acts: all, Gangazara. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragm --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/15/51/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Indian Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/) / [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/15/) / 51 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 51 As soon as all were ready, Gangazara took a vessel full of water and sprinkled it over them all, thinking only of his snake-king and tiger-king. **Who acts:** all, Gangazara · **What happens:** be, take, sprinkle, think · **To what, where:** vessel 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 (all, Gangazara), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7128:15:51 # text = As soon as all were ready, Gangazara took a vessel full of water and sprinkled it over them all, thinking only of his snake-king and tiger-king. 1 As as ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ _ 3 as as SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 4 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 6 nsubj _ _ 5 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 Gangazara Gangazara PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 vessel vessel NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 sprinkled sprinkle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 over over ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ _ 20 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 19 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 thinking think VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 23 only only ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 26 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 tiger tiger NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | all | | | | | ready, soon *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **take** | past | Gangazara | a vessel | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vessel=Theme | | 3 | **sprinkle** | past | Gangazara *not said here* | vessel | | | | over corpses *= corpse* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme over they=Destination | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | Gangazara *not said here* | | | | | of Gangazara's snake king and tiger king | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/15/50/) - next →: [sentence 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/15/52/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/15/)