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title: Unsaddle me and take off my bridle; take off your beautiful clothes… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Unsaddle me and take off my bridle; take off your beautiful clothes and tie them all up in a bundle with your sword and gun." Who acts: you. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 73

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Unsaddle me and take off my bridle; take off your beautiful clothes and tie them all up in a bundle with your sword and gun."

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** unsaddle, take off, tie up · **To what, where:** me, bridle, beautiful clothes, clothes, bundle

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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 (you), 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:pg7128:23:73
# text = Unsaddle me and take off my bridle; take off your beautiful clothes and tie them all up in a bundle with your sword and gun."
1	Unsaddle	unsaddle	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	bridle	bridle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
10	off	off	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	9	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	tie	tie	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	nmod:unmarked	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	bundle	bundle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **unsaddle** | imperative | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take off** | infinitive | you *not said here* | my bridle |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridle=Theme |
| 3 | **take off** | infinitive |  | your beautiful clothes |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme |
| 4 | **tie up** | infinitive |  | clothes |  | a bundle |  | with your sword and gun | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient with sword=Co-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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