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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 39

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So the seventy maidens climbed into one swing, and Raja Rasalu, standing in his shining armour, fastened the ropes to his mighty bow, and drew it up to its fullest bent.

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**Who acts:** seventy maidens · **What happens:** climb, stand, shine, fasten, draw up, bend · **To what, where:** one swing, shining armour, ropes, swing

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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 (seventy maidens), 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:pg7128:21:39
# text = So the seventy maidens climbed into one swing, and Raja Rasalu, standing in his shining armour, fastened the ropes to his mighty bow, and drew it up to its fullest bent.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	seventy	seventy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	swing	swing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	Raja	Raja	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
12	Rasalu	Rasalu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	amod	_	_
18	armour	armour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	ropes	rope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	up	up	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	fullest	full	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	29	advcl	_	_
35	bent	bend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb** | past | the seventy maidens |  |  | one swing |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into swing=Destination |
| 2 | **stand** | gerund | the seventy maidens *not said here* |  |  | Raja's shining armour |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in armour=Location |
| 3 | **shine** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **fasten** | past | the seventy maidens *not said here* | the ropes |  |  |  | to Raja's mighty bow | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent rope=Patient to bow=Co-Patient |
| 5 | **draw up** | past | the seventy maidens *not said here* | swing |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 6 | **bend** | participle | the seventy maidens *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: 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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