--- title: The other said, "Well, for the nonce, they shall be faults, if you l… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The other said, "Well, for the nonce, they shall be faults, if you like! Who acts: other, Kosala, you. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/28/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Indian Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/) / [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/) / 28 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 28 The other said, "Well, for the nonce, they shall be faults, if you like! **Who acts:** other, Kosala, you · **What happens:** say, be, like · **To what, where:** faults · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (other, Kosala, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7128:20:28 # text = The other said, "Well, for the nonce, they shall be faults, if you like! 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 Well well INTJ UH _ 15 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 nonce nonce NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 15 cop _ _ 15 faults fault NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 if if SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 like like VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the other | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | shall | Kosala | faults | | | | for the nonce | tree rules | | 3 | **like** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/27/) - next →: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/29/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/)