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title: Then he blew his conch, and wished for a well to water them, and lo!… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he blew his conch, and wished for a well to water them, and lo! there was the well, _but the money-lender had two! Who acts: lender, well, money lender. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 43

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Then he blew his conch, and wished for a well to water them, and lo! there was the well, \_but the money-lender had two!

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**Who acts:** lender, well, money lender · **What happens:** blow, wish, be, have · **To what, where:** conch, two

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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 (lender, well, money lender), 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:pg7128:22:43
# text = Then he blew his conch, and wished for a well to water them, and lo! there was the well, _but the money-lender had two!
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	conch	conch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	20	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
19	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	20	expl	_	_
20	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	lender	lender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
31	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | past | lender | lender's conch |  |  | then |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent conch=Patient |
| 2 | **wish** | past | lender *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for a well and water  well | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for well=Theme |
| 3 | **be** | past | the well |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | past | the money lender | two |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=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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