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title: Notwithstanding these brave and boastful words, he was in reality ve… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Notwithstanding these brave and boastful words, he was in reality very much afraid, having heard of Rasalu's renown. Who acts: king. 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 50

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Notwithstanding these brave and boastful words, he was in reality very much afraid, having heard of Rasalu's renown.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** notwithstand, be, have, hear · **To what, where:** brave words

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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 (king), 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:pg7128:21:50
# text = Notwithstanding these brave and boastful words, he was in reality very much afraid, having heard of Rasalu's renown.
1	Notwithstanding	notwithstand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
3	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	boastful	boastful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	reality	reality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	much	much	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
17	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	xcomp	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	Rasalu	Rasalu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	renown	renown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **notwithstand** | gerund | king *not said here* | this brave words |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | king |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | gerund | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hear** | participle | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of Rasalu's renown | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of renown=Stimulus |

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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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