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description: Whilst he was journeying he passed through a town, where every one of the inhabitants looked so sad, that he could not help asking what was the matter. Who acts: son, one, matter. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, with its dependency tree and
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 17

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Whilst he was journeying he passed through a town, where every one of the inhabitants looked so sad, that he could not help asking what was the matter.

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**Who acts:** son, one, matter · **What happens:** journey, pass, look, not help, ask, be · **To what, where:** town · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, one, matter), 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:pg7128:19:17
# text = Whilst he was journeying he passed through a town, where every one of the inhabitants looked so sad, that he could not help asking what was the matter.
1	Whilst	whilst	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	journeying	journey	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
12	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
26	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	xcomp	_	_
27	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	26	ccomp	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **journey** | past · progressive | son |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **pass** | past | son |  |  | a town |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through town=Location |
| 3 | **look** | past | every one of the inhabitants |  |  |  |  | sad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **not** **help** | could | son |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* *not said to happen* | gerund | son *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** | past | the matter |  |  |  |  |  | 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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