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title: If he asks you what you would like, you would, perhaps, do well to r… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: If he asks you what you would like, you would, perhaps, do well to reply, 'The ring on your right hand, and the famous pot and spoon which you possess.' Who acts: father, you. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, with its dependency tree and the
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 57

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If he asks you what you would like, you would, perhaps, do well to reply, 'The ring on your right hand, and the famous pot and spoon which you possess.'

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**Who acts:** father, you · **What happens:** ask, like, reply, possess · **To what, where:** you, ring, right hand, famous pot · **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 (father, you), 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:pg7128:16:57
# text = If he asks you what you would like, you would, perhaps, do well to reply, 'The ring on your right hand, and the famous pot and spoon which you possess.'
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	reply	reply	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	spoon	spoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
34	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	obj	_	_
35	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	possess	possess	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | father |  | you |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **like** | would | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
| 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | would · do-support |  | the ring |  | your right hand |  | perhaps, well *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ring=Topic |
| 4 | **possess** | present | you | the famous pot and spoon |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot 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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