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title: At the first glance of the handsome young lad standing there bow in… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At the first glance of the handsome young lad standing there bow in hand, she knew by witchcraft that it was the King's son. Who acts: handsome young lad, matter, aim. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 7

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At the first glance of the handsome young lad standing there bow in hand, she knew by witchcraft that it was the King's son.

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**Who acts:** handsome young lad, matter, aim · **What happens:** stand, know, be, glance · **To what, where:** bow, hand, first glance, son

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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 (handsome young lad, matter, aim), 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:pg7128:19:7
# text = At the first glance of the handsome young lad standing there bow in hand, she knew by witchcraft that it was the King's son.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	glance	glance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
10	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	there	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Typo=Yes	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	witchcraft	witchcraft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | gerund | the handsome young lad *not said here* | there's bow |  | hand |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bow=Theme in hand=Destination |
| 2 | **know** | past | matter |  |  | the first glance of the handsome young lad |  | by witchcraft | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** | past | aim | the King's son |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **glance** |  | the handsome young lad |  |  |  |  |  | nom glance «act intransitive»: of=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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