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title: But he never even looked at them, and drawing the dice from his pock… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But he never even looked at them, and drawing the dice from his pocket, said to Sarkap, "We have played with your dice all this time; now we will play with mine." Who acts: Raja, We. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, with its dependency tree 
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 81

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But he never even looked at them, and drawing the dice from his pocket, said to Sarkap, "We have played with your dice all this time; now we will play with mine."

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**Who acts:** Raja, We · **What happens:** not look, draw, say, play · **To what, where:** dice, pocket, Sarkap · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, We), 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:pg7128:21:81
# text = But he never even looked at them, and drawing the dice from his pocket, said to Sarkap, "We have played with your dice all this time; now we will play with mine."
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	even	even	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	looked	look	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
10	drawing	draw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	dice	dice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Sarkap	Sarkap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	played	play	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	dice	dice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	30	det:predet	_	_
29	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
30	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	35	advmod	_	_
33	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **look** | participle | Raja |  |  |  |  | at arms *= arm* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme |
| 2 | **draw** | gerund |  | the dice |  | Raja's pocket |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent dice=Theme from pocket=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Raja *not said here* |  | Sarkap |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to sarkap=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **play** *in a quote* | present · perfect | We |  |  |  | time | with your dice | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with dice=Theme |
| 5 | **play** *in a quote* | future | we |  |  |  | now | with Raja | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with my=Theme |

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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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