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title: Half-way the bearer of this present and message met his little son,… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Half-way the bearer of this present and message met his little son, who, seeing what was in the basket, begged his father to give him some of the food. Who acts: Half way, little son. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, with its dependency tree
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 49

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Half-way the bearer of this present and message met his little son, who, seeing what was in the basket, begged his father to give him some of the food.

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**Who acts:** Half way, little son · **What happens:** meet, see, be, beg, give · **To what, where:** little son, basket, father, some · **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 (Half way, little son), 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:pg7128:26:49
# text = Half-way the bearer of this present and message met his little son, who, seeing what was in the basket, begged his father to give him some of the food.
1	Half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bearer	bearer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
19	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	23	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	ccomp	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	iobj	_	_
31	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past | Half way | bearer's little son |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **see** | gerund | bearer's little son |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  | the basket |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | Half way *not said here* |  | bearer's father |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent father=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **give** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | some | Father |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient some=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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