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title: They told one another all they had experienced since they had last s… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They told one another all they had experienced since they had last seen each other, and were all very glad. Who acts: friends. 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 79

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They told one another all they had experienced since they had last seen each other, and were all very glad.

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**Who acts:** friends · **What happens:** tell, experience, see, be · **To what, where:** one, other · **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 (friends), 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:pg7128:16:79
# text = They told one another all they had experienced since they had last seen each other, and were all very glad.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	obj	_	_
4	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	nmod	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	experienced	experience	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	_
9	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	last	last	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
14	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	all	all	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	very	very	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | friends *= friend* | one  all |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent one=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **experience** | past · perfect | friends *= friend* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **see** | past · perfect | friends *= friend* | each other |  |  |  | last *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer other=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | all, glad *property* | tree rules |

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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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