--- title: When he had made up his mind, he got some milk, poured it into a bow… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: When he had made up his mind, he got some milk, poured it into a bowl, and went to the ant-hill, and said aloud: "O Guardian of this Field! all this while I did not know that you dwelt here. Who acts: labour, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (labour, you), 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:pg7128:18:78 # text = When he had made up his mind, he got some milk, poured it into a bowl, and went to the ant-hill, and said aloud: "O Guardian of this Field! all this while I did not know that you dwelt here. 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 12 det _ _ 12 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 poured pour VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 into into ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 bowl bowl NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 24 ant ant NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 hill hill NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 30 aloud aloud ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 : : PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 O of ADP IN Abbr=Yes 34 case _ _ 34 Guardian Guardian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 ccomp _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 37 det _ _ 37 Field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ! ! PUNCT . _ 34 punct _ _ 39 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 40 det:predet _ _ 40 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 29 obj _ _ 41 while while SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 42 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 43 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 44 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 45 advmod _ _ 45 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 ccomp _ _ 46 that that SCONJ IN _ 48 mark _ _ 47 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 48 dwelt dwell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 ccomp _ _ 49 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 48 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make up** | past · perfect | labour | labour's mind | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | | 2 | **get** | past | labour | some milk | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer milk=Stimulus | | 3 | **pour** | past | | milk | | a bowl | | | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into bowl=Destination | | 4 | **go** | past | | | | the ant hill | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to hill=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **say** *speech: express* | past | labour *not said here* | this | | | | aloud *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **know** *in a quote* | past · do-support | labour | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 7 | **dwell** *in a quote* | past | you | | | here | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **mind** | | labour | | | | | | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/77/) - next →: [sentence 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/79/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/)