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title: Then, just now, when we were crossing the stream, he waded through i… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, just now, when we were crossing the stream, he waded through it without taking off his shoes and paijamas." Who acts: we, stream. 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 39

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Then, just now, when we were crossing the stream, he waded through it without taking off his shoes and paijamas."

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**Who acts:** we, stream · **What happens:** cross, wade, take off · **To what, where:** stream, cemetery, shoes

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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 (we, stream), 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:pg7128:26:39
# text = Then, just now, when we were crossing the stream, he waded through it without taking off his shoes and paijamas."
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
7	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	crossing	cross	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	waded	wade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	through	through	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
19	off	off	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	paijamas	paijama	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cross** | past · progressive | we | the stream |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stream=Patient |
| 2 | **wade** | past | stream |  |  | cemetery | then; now |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through it=Trajectory |
| 3 | **take off** | gerund | stream *not said here* | stream's shoes and paijamas |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=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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