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title: And immediately the headless corpse arose and sat beside Raja Rasalu. — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And immediately the headless corpse arose and sat beside Raja Rasalu. Who acts: headless corpse. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 111

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And immediately the headless corpse arose and sat beside Raja Rasalu.

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**Who acts:** headless corpse · **What happens:** arise, sit · **To what, where:** Raja

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (headless corpse), 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:pg7128:20:111
# text = And immediately the headless corpse arose and sat beside Raja Rasalu.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	headless	headless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	corpse	corpse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
9	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Raja	Raja	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	Rasalu	Rasalu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arise** | past | the headless corpse |  |  |  |  | immediately *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sit** | past | the headless corpse *not said here* |  |  | Raja |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside raja=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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