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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 111

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Now at each place he came to, when he took the pack down from the ass's back, he used to clothe him in a lion's skin, and turn him loose in the rice and barley fields.

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**Who acts:** Buddha · **What happens:** come, take down, use, clothe, turn, lose · **To what, where:** place, pack, back, Buddha, skin, rice

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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: who acts (Buddha), 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:pg7128:21:111
# text = Now at each place he came to, when he took the pack down from the ass's back, he used to clothe him in a lion's skin, and turn him loose in the rice and barley fields.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	pack	pack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	down	down	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	ass	ass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	clothe	clothe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	loose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	barley	barley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Buddha |  |  | each place | now |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at place=Location |
| 2 | **take down** | past | Buddha | the pack |  | the ass's back |  | down *property* | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pack=Theme |
| 3 | **use** | past | Buddha |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **clothe** | to-infinitive | Buddha *not said here* | Buddha |  | a lion's skin |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 5 | **turn** | infinitive | Buddha *not said here* | Buddha |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **lose** | infinitive | Buddha *not said here* |  |  | the rice and barley fields |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent in rice=Eventuality |

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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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