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title: Upon this the Jogi began to shiver and shake (for no Jinn or Jogi da… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Upon this the Jogi began to shiver and shake (for no Jinn or Jogi dares disobey King Indra's command), and, falling at the lad's feet, cried, "If you will spare me I will give you anything I possess, even my beautiful white cow!" Who acts: you, I, King. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph J
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 42

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Upon this the Jogi began to shiver and shake (for no Jinn or Jogi dares disobey King Indra's command), and, falling at the lad's feet, cried, "If you will spare me I will give you anything I possess, even my beautiful white cow!"

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**Who acts:** you, I, King · **What happens:** begin, shiver, shake, disobey, fall, cry · **To what, where:** command, feet, beautiful white cow, me, anything, you · **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 (you, I, 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:pg7128:19:42
# text = Upon this the Jogi began to shiver and shake (for no Jinn or Jogi dares disobey King Indra's command), and, falling at the lad's feet, cried, "If you will spare me I will give you anything I possess, even my beautiful white cow!"
1	Upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Jogi	Jogi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	shiver	shiver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	shake	shake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
13	Jinn	Jinn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Jogi	Jogi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	dares	dare	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
17	disobey	disobey	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
18	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	_
19	Indra	Indra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
21	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	's	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
37	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	spare	spare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	conj	_	_
40	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	_
41	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
42	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	conj	_	_
44	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	43	iobj	_	_
45	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	43	obj	_	_
46	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	possess	possess	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
49	even	even	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
50	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
51	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
52	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	53	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	53	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past |  |  |  |  |  | upon the Jogi | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **shiver** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **shake** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **disobey** | present |  | King's command |  |  |  | for no Jinn dares | tree rules |
| 5 | **fall** | gerund |  |  |  | the lad's feet |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at foot=Location |
| 6 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  | my beautiful white cow |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **spare** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | future | you | me |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Asset |
| 8 | **give** *in a quote* | future | I | anything | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient anything=Theme |
| 9 | **possess** *in a quote* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 10 | **command** |  | King |  |  |  |  |  | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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