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description: I have often thought how stupid people were to venture into that swiftly flowing stream and over those sharp stones with bare feet. Who acts: I, stupid people. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 41

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I have often thought how stupid people were to venture into that swiftly flowing stream and over those sharp stones with bare feet.

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**Who acts:** I, stupid people · **What happens:** think, venture, flow · **To what, where:** flowing stream · **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 (I, stupid people), 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:pg7128:26:41
# text = I have often thought how stupid people were to venture into that swiftly flowing stream and over those sharp stones with bare feet.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
6	stupid	stupid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	venture	venture	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
13	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	flowing	flow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	amod	_	_
15	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	over	over	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
19	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **venture** | past | stupid people |  |  | that flowing stream and that sharp stones with bare feet |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **flow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | swiftly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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