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title: One day no one else was at hand, so he cut off mine, and he will sur… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: One day no one else was at hand, so he cut off mine, and he will surely cut off yours on some pretence or another. Who acts: one, corpse. 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 7

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One day no one else was at hand, so he cut off mine, and he will surely cut off yours on some pretence or another.

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**Who acts:** one, corpse · **What happens:** be, cut off · **To what, where:** hand, mine, yours, pretence

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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 (one, corpse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg7128:1449`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7128:21:7
# text = One day no one else was at hand, so he cut off mine, and he will surely cut off yours on some pretence or another.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	else	else	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
13	off	off	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
21	off	off	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
25	pretence	pretence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	conj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | no one |  |  | hand | day |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cut off** | past | corpse | mine |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector my=Eventuality |
| 3 | **cut off** | future | corpse | yours |  | some pretence |  | surely *property* | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector your=Eventuality |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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