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title: At that time a hawker used to go from place to place, trafficking in… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At that time a hawker used to go from place to place, trafficking in goods carried by an ass. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 110

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At that time a hawker used to go from place to place, trafficking in goods carried by an ass.

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**What happens:** use, go, traffic, carry · **To what, where:** hawker, place, goods

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg7128:21:110
# text = At that time a hawker used to go from place to place, trafficking in goods carried by an ass.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hawker	hawker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
6	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	trafficking	traffic	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	14	obl	_	_
17	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	ass	ass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | participle |  | a hawker *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **go** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | place |  | to place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from place=Initial\_Location to place=Destination |
| 3 | **traffic** | gerund |  |  |  | goods |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **carry** | participle |  | goods *not said here* |  |  |  | by a ass | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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