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title: Once upon a time they had travelled far afield, and were returning h… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Once upon a time they had travelled far afield, and were returning home with a great deal of money which they had obtained by selling their wares. Who acts: merchants. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 38

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Once upon a time they had travelled far afield, and were returning home with a great deal of money which they had obtained by selling their wares.

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**Who acts:** merchants · **What happens:** travell, return, obtain, sell, deal · **To what, where:** afield, money, wares

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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 (merchants), 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:pg7128:20:38
# text = Once upon a time they had travelled far afield, and were returning home with a great deal of money which they had obtained by selling their wares.
1	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	7	advmod	_	_
2	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	travelled	travell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
9	afield	afield	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	returning	return	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
14	home	home	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	obtained	obtain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	selling	sell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	wares	ware	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **travell** | past · perfect | merchants *= merchant* | afield |  |  | time | once *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **return** | past · progressive | merchants *= merchant* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a great deal of money; home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **obtain** | past · perfect · passive |  | money |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **sell** | gerund |  | merchants's wares |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ware=Theme |
| 5 | **deal** |  |  | money |  |  |  |  | nom deal «act transitive»: of=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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