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title: "Friend tortoise! the place where we live, at the Golden Cave on Mou… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Friend tortoise! the place where we live, at the Golden Cave on Mount Beautiful in the Himalaya country, is a delightful spot. Who acts: we, Friend tortoise. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 53

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"Friend tortoise! the place where we live, at the Golden Cave on Mount Beautiful in the Himalaya country, is a delightful spot.

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**Who acts:** we, Friend tortoise · **What happens:** live, be · **To what, where:** Golden Cave, delightful spot

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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 (we, Friend tortoise), 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:pg7128:17:53
# text = "Friend tortoise! the place where we live, at the Golden Cave on Mount Beautiful in the Himalaya country, is a delightful spot.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	advmod	_	_
8	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Mount	Mount	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	Beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Himalaya	Himalaya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	delightful	delightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** *in a quote* | present | we |  |  | the Golden Cave on Mount |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at cave=Location |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Friend tortoise | a delightful spot |  |  |  |  | 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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