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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 14

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I'll find out how old he is, and then I'll let the chariot of the younger be got out of the way, and so make room for the elder."

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**Who acts:** I, charioteer · **What happens:** find out, be, let, get out, make · **To what, where:** chariot, younger, way, room · **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 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, charioteer), 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:pg7128:20:14
# text = I'll find out how old he is, and then I'll let the chariot of the younger be got out of the way, and so make room for the elder."
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	nsubj	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	acl	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
30	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	elder	elder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find out** | future | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | charioteer |  |  |  |  | old *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **let** | future | I | the chariot |  |  | then |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chariot=Theme |
| 4 | **get out** | infinitive · passive |  | younger |  | the way |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** | infinitive | I *not said here* | room |  |  |  | for the elder | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent room=Product for elder=Asset |

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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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