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description: No one knew who the tiny boy was, but everybody liked him, and he was so full of funny tricks and antics, so merry and bright, that he was sure to be rewarded by some girdle-cakes, a handful of parched grain, or some sweetmeats. Who acts: one, tiny boy, everybody, boy. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Ta
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 2

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No one knew who the tiny boy was, but everybody liked him, and he was so full of funny tricks and antics, so merry and bright, that he was sure to be rewarded by some girdle-cakes, a handful of parched grain, or some sweetmeats.

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**Who acts:** one, tiny boy, everybody, boy · **What happens:** know, be, like, reward, parch · **To what, where:** boy, sweetmeats · **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 (one, tiny boy, everybody, boy), 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:pg7128:19:2
# text = No one knew who the tiny boy was, but everybody liked him, and he was so full of funny tricks and antics, so merry and bright, that he was sure to be rewarded by some girdle-cakes, a handful of parched grain, or some sweetmeats.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	ccomp	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	12	nsubj	_	_
12	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	tricks	trick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	antics	antic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	parataxis	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
36	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	rewarded	reward	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	ccomp	_	_
38	by	by	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
39	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	42	det	_	_
40	girdle	girdle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	handful	handful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	appos	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	parched	parch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	48	amod	_	_
48	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
50	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
51	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	52	det	_	_
52	sweetmeats	sweetmeat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | no one |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the tiny boy |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **like** | past | everybody | boy |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | boy |  |  |  |  | of funny tricks and antics; full *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | past | boy |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **reward** | to-infinitive · passive | boy *not said here* | some sweetmeats |  |  |  | by some girdle cakes | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient» |
| 8 | **parch** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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