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title: "Is that all?" quoth the cricket; "had I known how small a job you w… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Is that all?" quoth the cricket; "had I known how small a job you wanted me to do, I would not have assembled so many of my brethren." Who acts: Rasalu, you. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 33

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"Is that all?" quoth the cricket; "had I known how small a job you wanted me to do, I would not have assembled so many of my brethren."

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**Who acts:** Rasalu, you · **What happens:** be, know, want, do, not assemble · **To what, where:** Rasalu, many · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Rasalu, you), 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:pg7128:21:33
# text = "Is that all?" quoth the cricket; "had I known how small a job you wanted me to do, I would not have assembled so many of my brethren."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	quoth	quoth	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cricket	cricket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	parataxis	_	_
15	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
16	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
28	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux	_	_
29	assembled	assemble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	brethren	brethren	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | quoth *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** *in a quote* | past · perfect | Rasalu |  |  |  |  | small *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **want** *in a quote* | past | you | Rasalu |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | Rasalu *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **assemble** *in a quote* | would · perfect | Rasalu | many of my brethren |  |  |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent many=Theme |

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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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