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title: After a while, Sarkap, seeing Raja Rasalu was winning, called to his… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: After a while, Sarkap, seeing Raja Rasalu was winning, called to his rat, but when Dhol Raja saw the kitten he was afraid, and would not go further. Who acts: Sarkap, Dhol, kitten. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, with its dependency tree an
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 83

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After a while, Sarkap, seeing Raja Rasalu was winning, called to his rat, but when Dhol Raja saw the kitten he was afraid, and would not go further.

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**Who acts:** Sarkap, Dhol, kitten · **What happens:** see, win, call, be, not go · **To what, where:** Raja Rasalu, rat · **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 (Sarkap, Dhol, kitten), 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:pg7128:21:83
# text = After a while, Sarkap, seeing Raja Rasalu was winning, called to his rat, but when Dhol Raja saw the kitten he was afraid, and would not go further.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Sarkap	Sarkap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
8	Raja	Raja	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Rasalu	Rasalu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	winning	win	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	parataxis	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
20	Dhol	Dhol	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	Raja	Raja	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
22	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	kitten	kitten	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
33	further	further	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | gerund | Sarkap *not said here* | Raja Rasalu |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rasalu=Stimulus |
| 2 | **win** | past · progressive | Sarkap |  |  |  | while |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **call** | participle |  |  | Rasalu's rat |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to rat=Recipient |
| 4 | **see** | past | Dhol |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is** | past | the kitten |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **go** | would | the kitten *not said here* |  |  |  |  | further *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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