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title: A woman brought me one to-day, and on my inquiring whether it was a… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: A woman brought me one to-day, and on my inquiring whether it was a male or female, the fish laughed most rudely." Who acts: woman, my, behaviour. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 105

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A woman brought me one to-day, and on my inquiring whether it was a male or female, the fish laughed most rudely."

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**Who acts:** woman, my, behaviour · **What happens:** bring, inquire, be · **To what, where:** one, me

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, my, behaviour), 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:pg7128:25:105
# text = A woman brought me one to-day, and on my inquiring whether it was a male or female, the fish laughed most rudely."
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	inquiring	inquire	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
14	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
18	male	male	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	advcl	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	female	female	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
25	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	26	advmod	_	_
26	rudely	rudely	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past | a woman | one | me |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination one=Theme |
| 2 | **inquire** *speech: other* | gerund | my |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | behaviour |  |  |  |  | laugh, rudely *property* | tree rules |

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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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