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title: Here, take this," he continued, scribbling a few lines on some paper… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Here, take this," he continued, scribbling a few lines on some paper, and then handing it to her, "and give it to the king. Who acts: you, Bhagawant. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 101

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Here, take this," he continued, scribbling a few lines on some paper, and then handing it to her, "and give it to the king.

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**Who acts:** you, Bhagawant · **What happens:** take, continue, scribble, hand, give · **To what, where:** this, few lines, paper, mother, king · **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 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Bhagawant), 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:pg7128:17:101
# text = Here, take this," he continued, scribbling a few lines on some paper, and then handing it to her, "and give it to the king.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	scribbling	scribble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
20	handing	hand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | this |  | here |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent this=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **continue** *in a quote* | past | Bhagawant |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **scribble** *in a quote* | gerund | Bhagawant *not said here* | a few lines |  | some paper |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent line=Theme on paper=Destination |
| 4 | **hand** *in a quote* | gerund | Bhagawant *not said here* | paper | mother |  | then |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to she=Destination |
| 5 | **give** | infinitive | you *not said here* | paper | the king |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to king=Recipient |

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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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