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title: On this the second ant let go and did not rob the first, but went of… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: On this the second ant let go and did not rob the first, but went off to where the King's sons were eating their food. Who acts: you, sons. 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 41

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On this the second ant let go and did not rob the first, but went off to where the King's sons were eating their food.

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**Who acts:** you, sons · **What happens:** go, not rob, go off, eat · **To what, where:** second ant, first, food

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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 (you, sons), 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:pg7128:25:41
# text = On this the second ant let go and did not rob the first, but went off to where the King's sons were eating their food.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	ant	ant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	let	let	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	rob	rob	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
17	off	off	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	25	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the second ant |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on ant=Location |
| 2 | **not** **rob** | past · do-support | you *not said here* | the first |  |  |  |  | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent first=Source |
| 3 | **go off** | past | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **eat** | past · progressive | the King's sons | children's food |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient |

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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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