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title: Young Rasalu lived on, far from the light of day, for eleven long ye… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Young Rasalu lived on, far from the light of day, for eleven long years, growing tall and strong, yet contented to remain playing with his colt, and talking to his parrot; but when the twelfth year began, the lad's heart leapt up with desire for change, and he loved to listen to the sounds of life w
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 79

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Young Rasalu lived on, far from the light of day, for eleven long years, growing tall and strong, yet contented to remain playing with his colt, and talking to his parrot; but when the twelfth year began, the lad's heart leapt up with desire for change, and he loved to listen to the sounds of life which came to him in his palace-prison from the outside world.

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**Who acts:** Young Rasalu, twelfth year, heart, life · **What happens:** live on, grow, content, remain, play, talk · **To what, where:** light, Rasalu, palace prison, day

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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 (Young Rasalu, twelfth year, heart, life), 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:pg7128:20:79
# text = Young Rasalu lived on, far from the light of day, for eleven long years, growing tall and strong, yet contented to remain playing with his colt, and talking to his parrot; but when the twelfth year began, the lad's heart leapt up with desire for change, and he loved to listen to the sounds of life which came to him in his palace-prison from the outside world.
1	Young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Rasalu	Rasalu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	eleven	eleven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
15	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
19	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	contented	content	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	xcomp	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	colt	colt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
33	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	49	csubj	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	parrot	parrot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
38	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
39	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	43	mark	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	twelfth	twelfth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
43	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	's	's	PART	POS	_	46	case	_	_
48	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
49	leapt	leapt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
50	up	up	ADP	RP	_	49	compound:prt	_	_
51	with	with	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
53	for	for	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
57	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
58	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
59	to	to	PART	TO	_	60	mark	_	_
60	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	58	xcomp	_	_
61	to	to	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
62	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
63	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	60	obl	_	_
64	of	of	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
65	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	nmod	_	_
66	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	67	nsubj	_	_
67	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	65	acl:relcl	_	_
68	to	to	ADP	IN	_	69	case	_	_
69	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	67	obl	_	_
70	in	in	ADP	IN	_	74	case	_	_
71	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	74	nmod:poss	_	_
72	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	74	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
73	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	72	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
74	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	67	obl	_	_
75	from	from	ADP	IN	_	78	case	_	_
76	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	78	det	_	_
77	outside	outside	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	78	amod	_	_
78	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	74	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
79	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live on** | past | Young Rasalu |  |  | the light of day | year |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | gerund | Young Rasalu *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tall *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **content** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **remain** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **play** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with Rasalu's colt | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with colt=Theme |
| 6 | **talk** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to Rasalu's parrot | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to parrot=Co-Agent |
| 7 | **begin** | past | the twelfth year |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 8 | **leapt up** | past | the lad's heart |  |  |  |  | with desire for change | tree rules |
| 9 | **love** | past | heart |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 10 | **listen** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | heart *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the sounds of life | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to sound=Theme |
| 11 | **come** | past | life |  | Rasalu | Rasalu's palace prison from the outside world |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial\_Location |
| 12 | **light** |  |  | day |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon 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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