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title: "Thank you very much," the young man replied; "but let me first inqu… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Thank you very much," the young man replied; "but let me first inquire, if you please, whether the beam of your house is strong." Who acts: young man, you. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 11

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"Thank you very much," the young man replied; "but let me first inquire, if you please, whether the beam of your house is strong."

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**Who acts:** young man, you · **What happens:** thank, reply, let, inquire, be, beam · **To what, where:** you, man, house · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (young man, you), 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:pg7128:26:11
# text = "Thank you very much," the young man replied; "but let me first inquire, if you please, whether the beam of your house is strong."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Thank	thank	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	much	much	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	replied	reply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	18	advmod	_	_
18	inquire	inquire	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
22	please	please	INTJ	UH	_	31	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
24	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	beam	beam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* *in a quote* | present |  |  | you |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | participle | the young man |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | man |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 4 | **inquire** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **beam** *in a quote* |  |  | your house |  |  |  |  | nom beam «communication transitive»: of=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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