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title: No paltry risk--but life and death at stake; As Heaven does, so do,… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: No paltry risk--but life and death at stake; As Heaven does, so do, for Heaven's sake!" Who acts: paltry risk. 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 94

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No paltry risk--but life and death at stake; As Heaven does, so do, for Heaven's sake!"

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**Who acts:** paltry risk · **What happens:** do

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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 (paltry risk), 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:pg7128:21:94
# text = No paltry risk--but life and death at stake; As Heaven does, so do, for Heaven's sake!"
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
2	paltry	paltry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	risk	risk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	stake	stake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present · do-support | no paltry risk at stake but life and death |  |  |  |  | for Heaven's sake | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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