--- title: "On earth I was even as thou, My turban awry like a king, My head wi… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: "On earth I was even as thou, My turban awry like a king, My head with the highest, I trow, Having my fun and my fling, Fighting my foes like a brave, Living my life with a swing. Who acts: headless corpse, my. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (headless corpse, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7128:21:2 # text = "On earth I was even as thou, My turban awry like a king, My head with the highest, I trow, Having my fun and my fling, Fighting my foes like a brave, Living my life with a swing. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 On on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 even even ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 7 as as ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 turban turban NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 12 awry awry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 13 like like ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 highest high ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 23 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 trow trow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 Having have VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 conj _ _ 27 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 fun fun NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 fling fling NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 Fighting fight VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 parataxis _ _ 34 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 foes foe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 36 like like ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 brave brave ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 Living live VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 conj _ _ 41 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 43 with with ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 swing swing NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 24 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the headless corpse *= corpse* | | | | | as thou | tree rules | | 2 | **trow** *in a quote* | present | the headless corpse *= corpse* | | | earth | | | tree rules | | 3 | **have** *in a quote* | gerund | the headless corpse *= corpse* *not said here* | my fun and my fling | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Patient | | 4 | **fight** *in a quote* | gerund | | my foes | | | | like a brave | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foe=Co-Agent | | 5 | **live** *in a quote* | gerund | | my life | | | | with a swing | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location | | 6 | **fling** *in a quote* | | my | | | | | | nom fling «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/21/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/21/3/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/21/)