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title: So the night passed on, dark and dreary, while Rasalu sat in the gra… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So the night passed on, dark and dreary, while Rasalu sat in the graveyard and talked to the headless corpse. Who acts: Rasalu. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 4

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So the night passed on, dark and dreary, while Rasalu sat in the graveyard and talked to the headless corpse.

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**Who acts:** Rasalu · **What happens:** pass on, sit, talk · **To what, where:** graveyard

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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), 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:pg7128:21:4
# text = So the night passed on, dark and dreary, while Rasalu sat in the graveyard and talked to the headless corpse.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	dreary	dreary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	Rasalu	Rasalu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	graveyard	graveyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	talked	talk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	headless	headless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	corpse	corpse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass on** | participle |  |  |  |  | night |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sit** | past | Rasalu |  |  | the graveyard |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in graveyard=Location |
| 3 | **talk** | past | Rasalu *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the headless corpse | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to corpse=Co-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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