--- title: "No, no, indeed you are not," they said; "for he is a poor, common-l… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: "No, no, indeed you are not," they said; "for he is a poor, common-looking, and ugly man." Who acts: prince. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/24/43/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Indian Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/) / [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/24/) / 43 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 43 "No, no, indeed you are not," they said; "for he is a poor, common-looking, and ugly man." **Who acts:** prince · **What happens:** be, not say, look · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7128:24:43 # text = "No, no, indeed you are not," they said; "for he is a poor, common-looking, and ugly man." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 No no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 13 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 no no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 2 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 6 indeed indeed ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 8 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 for for SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 ugly ugly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 29 . . PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | indeed *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | prince | | | | | poor *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **look** *in a quote* | gerund | prince *not said here* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/24/42/) - next →: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/24/44/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/24/)