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title: Please do not kill the dog," pleaded the young and tender-hearted fe… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Please do not kill the dog," pleaded the young and tender-hearted fellow; "I will give you one hundred rupees for it." Who acts: you, I. 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 21

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Please do not kill the dog," pleaded the young and tender-hearted fellow; "I will give you one hundred rupees for it."

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** not kill, plead, give · **To what, where:** dog, young, hundred rupees, you · **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 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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:pg7128:16:21
# text = Please do not kill the dog," pleaded the young and tender-hearted fellow; "I will give you one hundred rupees for it."
1	Please	please	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	kill	kill	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
9	pleaded	plead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	tender	tender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	hearted	hearted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	iobj	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	compound	_	_
24	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	rupees	rupee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **kill** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | the dog |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **plead** *speech: request* *in a quote* | past |  | the young and tender hearted fellow |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | future | I | hundred rupees | you |  |  | for dog | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Recipient rupee=Theme for it=Asset |

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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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