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title: His sword--it was three-and-thirty inches long--stuck in the Demon's… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: His sword--it was three-and-thirty inches long--stuck in the Demon's hair! Who acts: Hair. 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 107

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His sword--it was three-and-thirty inches long--stuck in the Demon's hair!

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**Who acts:** Hair · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** thirty inches, hair

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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 (Hair), 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:pg7128:26:107
# text = His sword--it was three-and-thirty inches long--stuck in the Demon's hair!
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
6	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	inches	inch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	stuck	stuck	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Demon	Demon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** |  | Hair *not said here* | thirty inches |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | Hair |  |  | the Demon's hair |  | stuck *property* | tree rules |

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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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