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title: "Behold him then, O excellent by strength! — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Behold him then, O excellent by strength! 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 clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 71

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"Behold him then, O excellent by strength!

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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: 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:pg7128:17:71
# text = "Behold him then, O excellent by strength!
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
7	excellent	excellent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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