--- title: The robbers were all uneducated, and thought that the leader was mer… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The robbers were all uneducated, and thought that the leader was merely singing a song as usual. Who acts: robbers, leader. 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/pg7128/20/53/) [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/) / 53 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 53 The robbers were all uneducated, and thought that the leader was merely singing a song as usual. **Who acts:** robbers, leader · **What happens:** be, think, sing · **To what, where:** song 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 (robbers, leader), 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:pg7128:20:53 # text = The robbers were all uneducated, and thought that the leader was merely singing a song as usual. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 robbers robber NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 all all ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 uneducated uneducated ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 9 that that SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 leader leader NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 merely merely ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 singing sing VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 as as ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 usual usual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the robbers | | | | | all, uneducated *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | past · progressive | the leader | a song | | | | as usual; merely *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | 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 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/52/) - next →: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/54/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/)