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title: And finding no fault-finder there, he sought among those who lived o… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And finding no fault-finder there, he sought among those who lived outside the city, in the suburbs, at the four gates. Who acts: hall. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 83

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And finding no fault-finder there, he sought among those who lived outside the city, in the suburbs, at the four gates.

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**Who acts:** hall · **What happens:** find, seek, live · **To what, where:** fault finder, suburbs, city

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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), 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:pg7128:19:83
# text = And finding no fault-finder there, he sought among those who lived outside the city, in the suburbs, at the four gates.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
4	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	finder	finder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	among	among	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	obl	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	suburbs	suburb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | gerund | hall *not said here* | no fault finder |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finder=Topic |
| 2 | **seek** | past | hall |  |  | the suburbs |  | among those; at the four gates | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent among that=Location |
| 3 | **live** | past |  |  |  | the city |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme outside city=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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