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title: Now Gulizar had obtained a charmed swing, that landed whoever sat on… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now Gulizar had obtained a charmed swing, that landed whoever sat on it at the place wherever they wished to be. " Who acts: charmed swing, whoever, elephants. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 36

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Now Gulizar had obtained a charmed swing, that landed whoever sat on it at the place wherever they wished to be. "

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**Who acts:** charmed swing, whoever, elephants · **What happens:** obtain, charm, land, sit, wish, be · **To what, where:** Gulizar, swing

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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 (charmed swing, whoever, elephants), 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:pg7128:28:36
# text = Now Gulizar had obtained a charmed swing, that landed whoever sat on it at the place wherever they wished to be. "
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	Gulizar	Gulizar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	obtained	obtain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	charmed	charm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	swing	swing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	landed	land	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	whoever	whoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **obtain** | past · perfect · passive |  | Gulizar |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **charm** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **land** | past | a charmed swing |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sit** | past | whoever |  |  | swing |  | at the place | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on it=Location |
| 5 | **wish** | past | elephants *= elephant* |  |  |  |  | wherever *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 6 | **be** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | elephants *= elephant* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «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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