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title: Then he thought that two men unaided could not kill such a wicked ho… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he thought that two men unaided could not kill such a wicked horse, so he ordered his servants to bid his troop of sepoys shoot him. Who acts: Katar, two men, servants, troop. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, with its dependency tree an
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 56

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Then he thought that two men unaided could not kill such a wicked horse, so he ordered his servants to bid his troop of sepoys shoot him.

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**Who acts:** Katar, two men, servants, troop · **What happens:** think, unaid, not kill, order, bid, shoot · **To what, where:** wicked horse, servants, Katar

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Katar, two men, servants, troop), 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:pg7128:23:56
# text = Then he thought that two men unaided could not kill such a wicked horse, so he ordered his servants to bid his troop of sepoys shoot him.
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	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	unaided	unaid	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
11	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	14	det:predet	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	bid	bid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	troop	troop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	sepoys	sepoy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
27	shoot	shoot	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	ccomp	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Katar |  |  |  | then |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **unaid** | past | two men |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **kill** | could | two men *not said here* | such wicked horse |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme |
| 4 | **order** | past | Katar | Katar's servants |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent servant=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **bid** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Katar's servants *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **shoot** | present | Katar's troop of sepoys | Katar |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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