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title: One morning he started with some food in a bundle, and walked on day… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: One morning he started with some food in a bundle, and walked on day after day, till he reached the chief city of the neighbouring country. Who acts: king. 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
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 83

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One morning he started with some food in a bundle, and walked on day after day, till he reached the chief city of the neighbouring country.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** start, walk, reach, neighbour · **To what, where:** bundle, chief city

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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 (king), 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:pg7128:17:83
# text = One morning he started with some food in a bundle, and walked on day after day, till he reached the chief city of the neighbouring country.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bundle	bundle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	after	after	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	neighbouring	neighbour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	amod	_	_
28	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | past | king |  |  | a bundle | morning | with some food | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with food=Subeventuality |
| 2 | **walk** | past |  |  |  |  | day |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **reach** | past | king | the chief city of the neighbouring country |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent city=Theme |
| 4 | **neighbour** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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