--- title: After a little while the two travellers arrived at a big village, wh… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: After a little while the two travellers arrived at a big village, where the young man gave his companion a clasp-knife, and said, "Take this, friend, and get two horses with it; but mind and bring it back, for it is very precious." Who acts: little, young man, mind. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little, young man, mind), 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:pg7128:25:131 # text = After a little while the two travellers arrived at a big village, where the young man gave his companion a clasp-knife, and said, "Take this, friend, and get two horses with it; but mind and bring it back, for it is very precious." 1 After after SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 nsubj _ _ 4 while while SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 travellers traveller NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 arrived arrive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 advcl _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 village village NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 18 advmod _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 companion companion NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 22 clasp clasp NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 knife knife NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 " " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 Take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 ccomp _ _ 31 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 conj _ _ 37 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 38 nummod _ _ 38 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 39 with with ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ; ; PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 42 but but CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 43 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 46 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 obj _ _ 47 back back ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 49 for for SCONJ IN _ 53 mark _ _ 50 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 53 nsubj _ _ 51 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 53 cop _ _ 52 very very ADV RB _ 53 advmod _ _ 53 precious precious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 55 " " PUNCT '' _ 45 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **arrive** | past | a little | | | a big village | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **give** | past | the young man | Man's companion | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent companion=Recipient knife=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the young man *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive | | this | | | | friend *vocative* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme | | 5 | **get** *in a quote* | infinitive | | two horses | | | | with friend | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus | | 6 | **bring back** *in a quote* | infinitive | mind | knife | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 7 | **is** *in a quote* | present | mind | | | | | precious *property* | tree rules | 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 130](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/25/130/) - next →: [sentence 132](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/25/132/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/25/)