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title: The three thieves, glorying in their victory, and little understandi… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The three thieves, glorying in their victory, and little understanding the meaning of the song and the intentions of the dancers, were proudly seated chewing betel and tobacco. Who acts: three thieves. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, with i
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 62

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The three thieves, glorying in their victory, and little understanding the meaning of the song and the intentions of the dancers, were proudly seated chewing betel and tobacco.

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**Who acts:** three thieves · **What happens:** glory, understand, seat, chew, mean, intend · **To what, where:** victory, meaning, intentions, betel, song, dancers · **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 (three thieves), 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:pg7128:20:62
# text = The three thieves, glorying in their victory, and little understanding the meaning of the song and the intentions of the dancers, were proudly seated chewing betel and tobacco.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	thieves	thief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	glorying	glory	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	victory	victory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	understanding	understand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	meaning	meaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	intentions	intention	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	dancers	dancer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
26	proudly	proudly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	seated	seat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	ccomp	_	_
28	chewing	chew	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	xcomp	_	_
29	betel	betel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	tobacco	tobacco	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glory** | gerund | the three thieves |  |  | thieves's victory |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **understand** | gerund | the three thieves *not said here* | the meaning of the song |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **seat** | past · passive |  | the intentions of the dancers |  |  |  | proudly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **chew** | gerund |  | betel and tobacco |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent betel=Patient |
| 5 | **mean** |  |  | the song |  |  |  |  | nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **intend** |  |  | the dancers |  |  |  |  | nom intention «cognition 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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