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title: Fear not, my brother, but go and take this necklace, and try to sell… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Fear not, my brother, but go and take this necklace, and try to sell it in the bazaar." Who acts: Fear. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 101

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Fear not, my brother, but go and take this necklace, and try to sell it in the bazaar."

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**Who acts:** Fear · **What happens:** go, take, try, sell · **To what, where:** necklace, bazaar

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fear), 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:pg7128:28:101
# text = Fear not, my brother, but go and take this necklace, and try to sell it in the bazaar."
1	Fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	necklace	necklace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	try	try	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	bazaar	bazaar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | infinitive | Fear and my brother |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | infinitive | Fear and my brother *not said here* | this necklace |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent necklace=Theme |
| 3 | **try** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **sell** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | necklace |  | the bazaar |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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