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title: Thus the Bodhisatta was five times snared, caught fast in five place… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus the Bodhisatta was five times snared, caught fast in five places, hanging suspended: yet he felt no fear--was not even nervous. Who acts: Bodhisatta. 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 
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 119

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Thus the Bodhisatta was five times snared, caught fast in five places, hanging suspended: yet he felt no fear--was not even nervous.

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**Who acts:** Bodhisatta · **What happens:** be, snare, catch, suspend, feel, not be · **To what, where:** five times, five places, fear

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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 (Bodhisatta), 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:pg7128:26:119
# text = Thus the Bodhisatta was five times snared, caught fast in five places, hanging suspended: yet he felt no fear--was not even nervous.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Bodhisatta	Bodhisatta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	snared	snare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
10	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
15	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	suspended	suspend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
18	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
22	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
26	even	even	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	nervous	nervous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the Bodhisatta | five times |  |  |  | thus *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **snare** | participle |  | five times *not said here* |  | five places |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in place=Destination |
| 3 | **catch** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **suspend** | gerund · passive |  | five times |  |  |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **feel** | past | Bodhisatta | no fear |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **is** | past | Bodhisatta *not said here* |  |  |  |  | nervous *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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