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title: Then, on entering a certain village, he bade me take his clasp knife… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, on entering a certain village, he bade me take his clasp knife and get two horses with it, and bring back the knife again to him." Who acts: man. 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 cla
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 31

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Then, on entering a certain village, he bade me take his clasp knife and get two horses with it, and bring back the knife again to him."

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** enter, bade, take, get, bring back · **To what, where:** certain village, me, clasp knife, two horses, knife, man

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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 (man), 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:pg7128:26:31
# text = Then, on entering a certain village, he bade me take his clasp knife and get two horses with it, and bring back the knife again to him."
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	entering	enter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	bade	bade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	clasp	clasp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
18	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
25	back	back	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	again	again	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | gerund | man *not said here* | a certain village |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme village=Destination |
| 2 | **bade** | past | man | me |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | infinitive | man *not said here* | man's clasp knife |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme |
| 4 | **get** | infinitive | man *not said here* | two horses |  |  |  | with knife | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus |
| 5 | **bring back** | infinitive | man *not said here* | the knife | man |  | again |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent knife=Theme to he=Destination |

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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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