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title: Another stronger ant came up and attacked her in order to get this g… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Another stronger ant came up and attacked her in order to get this grain of rice. Who acts: stronger ant. 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 37

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Another stronger ant came up and attacked her in order to get this grain of rice.

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**Who acts:** stronger ant · **What happens:** come up, attack, get · **To what, where:** ant, order, grain

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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 (stronger ant), 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:pg7128:25:37
# text = Another stronger ant came up and attacked her in order to get this grain of rice.
1	Another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	ant	ant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	attacked	attack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
13	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come up** | past | another stronger ant |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **attack** | past | another stronger ant *not said here* | ant |  | order |  |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 3 | **get** | to-infinitive | another stronger ant *not said here* | this grain of rice |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grain=Stimulus |

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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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