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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 43

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One day, when I had come out of the ground to drink the air, some people seized me, and would have slain me had you not most opportunely arrived to my rescue.

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**Who acts:** I, people, you, my · **What happens:** come out, drink, seize, slay, have, not arrive · **To what, where:** air, me, rescue

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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 (I, people, you, my), 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:pg7128:16:43
# text = One day, when I had come out of the ground to drink the air, some people seized me, and would have slain me had you not most opportunely arrived to my rescue.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	out	out	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux	_	_
25	slain	slay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
30	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	31	advmod	_	_
31	opportunely	opportunely	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	parataxis	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	rescue	rescue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** | past · perfect | I |  |  |  | day | of the ground; out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **drink** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the air |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Patient |
| 3 | **seize** | past | some people | me |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 4 | **slay** | would · perfect | some people *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 5 | **have** | past | some people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **not** **arrive** | past | you |  |  | my rescue |  | opportunely *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to rescue=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **rescue** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom rescue «act 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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