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title: The young man pretended not to notice his reply, and remained almost… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The young man pretended not to notice his reply, and remained almost silent till they reached the city, a short distance outside which was the old farmer's house. Who acts: young man, horses, Man. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, with its de
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 133

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The young man pretended not to notice his reply, and remained almost silent till they reached the city, a short distance outside which was the old farmer's house.

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**Who acts:** young man, horses, Man · **What happens:** pretend, not notice, remain, reach, be, reply · **To what, where:** reply, city, house

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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 (young man, horses, Man), 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:pg7128:25:133
# text = The young man pretended not to notice his reply, and remained almost silent till they reached the city, a short distance outside which was the old farmer's house.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	pretended	pretend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	notice	notice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	reply	reply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
15	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
24	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	obl	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	's	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pretend** | past | the young man |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **notice** | to-infinitive | the young man *not said here* | Man's reply |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer reply=Stimulus |
| 3 | **remain** | past | the young man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | silent *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **reach** | past | horses *= horse* | the city |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent city=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | past |  | the old farmer's house |  |  |  | outside a short distance | tree rules |
| 6 | **reply** |  | Man |  |  |  |  |  | nom reply «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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