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title: When Shankar had caressed and loved him, he swallowed him again for… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When Shankar had caressed and loved him, he swallowed him again for another six months. Who acts: Shankar, Boy. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 110

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When Shankar had caressed and loved him, he swallowed him again for another six months.

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**Who acts:** Shankar, Boy · **What happens:** caress, love, swallow · **To what, where:** Shankar

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shankar, Boy), 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:pg7128:22:110
# text = When Shankar had caressed and loved him, he swallowed him again for another six months.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	Shankar	Shankar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	caressed	caress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	swallowed	swallow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	again	again	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
15	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **caress** | past · perfect | Shankar |  |  |  |  |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **love** | past |  | Shankar |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 3 | **swallow** | past | Boy | Shankar |  |  | again; month |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

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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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