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title: Suppose you fell ill whilst he was out hunting and could therefore k… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Suppose you fell ill whilst he was out hunting and could therefore know nothing of your illness, what would you do then?" Who acts: you, King. 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 63

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Suppose you fell ill whilst he was out hunting and could therefore know nothing of your illness, what would you do then?"

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**Who acts:** you, King · **What happens:** suppose, fall, hunt, know, do · **To what, where:** nothing · **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 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, King), 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:pg7128:22:63
# text = Suppose you fell ill whilst he was out hunting and could therefore know nothing of your illness, what would you do then?"
1	Suppose	suppose	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
4	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
14	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	13	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	illness	illness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	22	obj	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	parataxis	_	_
23	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suppose** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **fall** | past | you |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hunt** | past · progressive | King |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **know** | could | you *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
| 5 | **do** | would | you |  |  |  | then |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

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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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