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title: But Harisarman reflected in his astonishment: "Fate brings about, as… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But Harisarman reflected in his astonishment: "Fate brings about, as if in sport, things impossible, for when calamity was so near, who would have thought chance would have brought us success? Who acts: Harisarman, Fate, calamity. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matte
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 4

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But Harisarman reflected in his astonishment: "Fate brings about, as if in sport, things impossible, for when calamity was so near, who would have thought chance would have brought us success?

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**Who acts:** Harisarman, Fate, calamity · **What happens:** reflect, bring about, be, think, bring, astonish · **To what, where:** astonishment, chance · **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 (Harisarman, Fate, calamity), 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:pg7128:16:4
# text = But Harisarman reflected in his astonishment: "Fate brings about, as if in sport, things impossible, for when calamity was so near, who would have thought chance would have brought us success?
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Harisarman	Harisarman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	reflected	reflect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
21	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
22	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
23	calamity	calamity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	near	near	ADV	RB	_	35	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
29	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux	_	_
31	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	35	advcl	_	_
32	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	aux	_	_
35	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	amod	_	_
36	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	success	success	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reflect** | past | Harisarman |  |  | Harisarman's astonishment |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring about** *in a quote* | present | Fate |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | past | calamity |  |  |  |  | near *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | would · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **bring** *in a quote* | would · perfect · passive |  | chance |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme we=Destination |
| 6 | **astonish** |  | Harisarman |  |  |  |  |  | nom astonishment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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