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title: At length they came to this famous city, and put up at a little hut… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At length they came to this famous city, and put up at a little hut that belonged to an old woman, from whom they feared no harm, and with whom, therefore, they could abide in peace and comfort. Who acts: arrows, little hut. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 138

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At length they came to this famous city, and put up at a little hut that belonged to an old woman, from whom they feared no harm, and with whom, therefore, they could abide in peace and comfort.

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**Who acts:** arrows, little hut · **What happens:** come, put up, belong, fear, abide · **To what, where:** length, little hut, harm, peace

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (arrows, little hut), 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:pg7128:27:138
# text = At length they came to this famous city, and put up at a little hut that belonged to an old woman, from whom they feared no harm, and with whom, therefore, they could abide in peace and comfort.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
7	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	belonged	belong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	obl	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	feared	fear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
28	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	29	det	_	_
29	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
35	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	abide	abide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	comfort	comfort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | arrows *= arrow* |  |  | length |  | to this famous city | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to city=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **put up** | participle | arrows *= arrow* *not said here* |  |  | a little hut |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at hut=Destination |
| 3 | **belong** | past | a little hut |  |  |  |  | to a old woman | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **fear** | past | arrows *= arrow* | no harm |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer harm=Stimulus |
| 5 | **abide** | could | arrows *= arrow* |  |  | peace and comfort |  |  | 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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