--- title: Whereupon he laughed, saying, "There are seventy of you, counting my… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Whereupon he laughed, saying, "There are seventy of you, counting my little bride yonder, and I am not going to spend my life swinging girls! Who acts: Rasalu, seventy. 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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 (Rasalu, seventy), 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:pg7128:21:36 # text = Whereupon he laughed, saying, "There are seventy of you, counting my little bride yonder, and I am not going to spend my life swinging girls! 1 Whereupon whereupon ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 9 expl _ _ 9 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 10 seventy seventy NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nsubj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 counting count VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 15 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 bride bride NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 yonder yonder ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 spend spend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 swinging swing VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 advcl _ _ 30 girls girl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **laugh** | past | Rasalu | | | | | whereupon *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: express* | gerund | Rasalu *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **be** *in a quote* | present | seventy of you | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **count** *in a quote* | gerund | Rasalu *not said here* | my little bride | | | | yonder *property* | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Theme | | 5 | **not** **go** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Rasalu | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **spend** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Rasalu *not said here* | my life | | | | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Asset | | 7 | **swing** *in a quote* | gerund | Rasalu *not said here* | girls | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme girl=Result | 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 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/21/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/21/37/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/21/)