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title: There he sat down to rest awhile by a well, where the women were dra… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There he sat down to rest awhile by a well, where the women were drawing water in earthen pitchers. Who acts: heart, women. 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.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 84

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There he sat down to rest awhile by a well, where the women were drawing water in earthen pitchers.

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**Who acts:** heart, women · **What happens:** sit down, rest, draw · **To what, where:** water, earthen pitchers

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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 (heart, women), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg7128:1427`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7128:20:84
# text = There he sat down to rest awhile by a well, where the women were drawing water in earthen pitchers.
1	There	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
7	awhile	awhile	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	drawing	draw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	acl:relcl	_	_
17	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	earthen	earthen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	pitchers	pitcher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit down** | past | heart |  |  | there |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **rest** | to-infinitive | heart *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by a well; awhile *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by well=Location |
| 3 | **draw** | past · progressive | the women | water |  | earthen pitchers |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme in pitcher=Destination |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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