--- title: While I was blaming my jihva, the thief Jihva suddenly flung herself… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: While I was blaming my jihva, the thief Jihva suddenly flung herself at my feet. Who acts: I, thief. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/16/5/) [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 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/16/) / 5 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 5 While I was blaming my jihva, the thief Jihva suddenly flung herself at my feet. **Who acts:** I, thief · **What happens:** blame, fling · **To what, where:** jihva, thief, feet 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, thief), 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:pg7128:16:5 # text = While I was blaming my jihva, the thief Jihva suddenly flung herself at my feet. 1 While while SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 blaming blame VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 5 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 jihva jihva NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 thief thief NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 10 Jihva Jihva PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 11 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 flung fling VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 12 obj _ _ 14 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **blame** | past · progressive | I | my jihva | | | | | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jihva=Theme | | 2 | **fling** | past | the thief | thief | | my feet | | suddenly *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme at foot=Destination | 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 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/16/4/) - next →: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/16/6/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/16/)