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title: "Anger he conquers by calmness, And by goodness the wicked; The stin… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Anger he conquers by calmness, And by goodness the wicked; The stingy he conquers by gifts, And by truth the speaker of lies. Who acts: Anger, stingy. 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 cla
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 31

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"Anger he conquers by calmness, And by goodness the wicked; The stingy he conquers by gifts, And by truth the speaker of lies.

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**Who acts:** Anger, stingy · **What happens:** conquer · **To what, where:** truth

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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 (Anger, stingy), 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:pg7128:20:31
# text = "Anger he conquers by calmness, And by goodness the wicked; The stingy he conquers by gifts, And by truth the speaker of lies.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	conquers	conquer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	calmness	calmness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	goodness	goodness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	stingy	stingy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	nsubj	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	conquers	conquer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	speaker	speaker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	lies	lie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conquer** *in a quote* | present | Anger |  |  |  |  | by calmness | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **conquer** *in a quote* | present | the stingy | truth |  |  |  | by gifts | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Patient |

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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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