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title: There was the place only, just as he knew it before he had tried the… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There was the place only, just as he knew it before he had tried the charmed ring which Raja Indrasha had given him. Who acts: place, Raja. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 110

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There was the place only, just as he knew it before he had tried the charmed ring which Raja Indrasha had given him.

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**Who acts:** place, Raja · **What happens:** be, know, try, charm, give · **To what, where:** escape, charmed ring, place

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (place, Raja), 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:pg7128:16:110
# text = There was the place only, just as he knew it before he had tried the charmed ring which Raja Indrasha had given him.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	just	just	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	tried	try	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	charmed	charm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obj	_	_
20	Raja	Raja	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	Indrasha	Indrasha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	acl:relcl	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | the place |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **know** | past | place | escape |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 3 | **try** | past · perfect | place | the charmed ring |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Eventuality |
| 4 | **charm** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **give** | past · perfect | Raja | the charmed ring | place |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient which=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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