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title: With this menace, he fitted to his bow an arrow dipped in deadly poi… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: With this menace, he fitted to his bow an arrow dipped in deadly poison, and let fly. Who acts: arrow. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 103

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With this menace, he fitted to his bow an arrow dipped in deadly poison, and let fly.

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**Who acts:** arrow · **What happens:** fit, dip, let · **To what, where:** bow, arrow, fly

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (arrow), 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:pg7128:26:103
# text = With this menace, he fitted to his bow an arrow dipped in deadly poison, and let fly.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	menace	menace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	fitted	fit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	dipped	dip	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
19	fly	fly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fit** | past | arrow |  |  |  |  | to arrow's bow  a arrow *goal*; with this menace | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent to bow=Goal |
| 2 | **dip** | participle |  | a arrow *not said here* |  |  |  | in deadly poison | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in poison=Attribute |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive | arrow *not said here* | fly |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Theme |

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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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