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title: Then he let go, and like an arrow the swing shot into the air, with… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he let go, and like an arrow the swing shot into the air, with its burden of seventy fair maidens, merry and careless, full of smiles and laughter. Who acts: Raja, swing. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, with its dependency tree and the
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 40

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Then he let go, and like an arrow the swing shot into the air, with its burden of seventy fair maidens, merry and careless, full of smiles and laughter.

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**Who acts:** Raja, swing · **What happens:** let, go, shoot, burden · **To what, where:** air, seventy fair maidens

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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 (Raja, swing), 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:pg7128:21:40
# text = Then he let go, and like an arrow the swing shot into the air, with its burden of seventy fair maidens, merry and careless, full of smiles and laughter.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	swing	swing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	shot	shoot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	burden	burden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	seventy	seventy	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
22	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	careless	careless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	smiles	smile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	laughter	laughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | past | Raja |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | Raja *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **shoot** | past | the swing |  |  | the air |  | like a arrow; with swing's burden of seventy fair maidens | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent into air=Destination |
| 4 | **burden** |  | swing | seventy fair maidens |  |  |  |  | nom burden «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |

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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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