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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 82

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Then he thought, "It is from fear of me that these men speak only good things, and not evil things," and he sought among those people who lived outside the palace.

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**Who acts:** hall, praise, men, people · **What happens:** think, be, speak, seek, live · **To what, where:** fear, good things, palace · **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 (hall, praise, men, people), 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:pg7128:19:82
# text = Then he thought, "It is from fear of me that these men speak only good things, and not evil things," and he sought among those people who lived outside the palace.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	speak	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl	_	_
16	only	only	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
22	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
29	among	among	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
31	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
32	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
33	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
34	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | hall |  |  |  | then |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | praise |  |  | fear |  | of hall | tree rules |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | this men | good things |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **seek** | past | hall |  |  |  |  | among that people | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent among people=Location |
| 5 | **live** | past | that people |  |  | the palace |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme outside palace=Location |

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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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