--- title: How glad master will be!" they thought, and ran as fast as their leg… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: How glad master will be!" they thought, and ran as fast as their legs could carry them. Who acts: rats, legs. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Indian Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/) / [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/) / 8 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 8 How glad master will be!" they thought, and ran as fast as their legs could carry them. **Who acts:** rats, legs · **What happens:** be, run, carry · **To what, where:** rats · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (rats, legs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7128:17:8 # text = How glad master will be!" they thought, and ran as fast as their legs could carry them. 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 glad glad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 9 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ! ! PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 13 as as ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 12 advmod _ _ 15 as as SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 16 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 18 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 20 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** *speech: other* *in a quote* | infinitive | rats *= rat* | | | | | think *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **run** *in a quote* | past | | | | | | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **carry** *in a quote* | could | rats's legs | rats *= rat* | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/7/) - next →: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/9/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/)