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title: And thus they continued to the day of the old man's demise, when the… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 54

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And thus they continued to the day of the old man's demise, when the bags were greedily opened, and found to contain only stones and gravel!

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**Who acts:** men · **What happens:** continue, open, find, contain · **To what, where:** bags, stones

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men), 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:pg7128:29:54
# text = And thus they continued to the day of the old man's demise, when the bags were greedily opened, and found to contain only stones and gravel!
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	demise	demise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	bags	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
19	greedily	greedily	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	opened	open	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	contain	contain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	only	only	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	gravel	gravel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | past | men *= man* |  |  |  | day | thus *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **open** | past · passive |  | the bags |  |  |  | greedily *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | past | men *= man* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **contain** | to-infinitive | men *= man* *not said here* | stones and gravel |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot stone=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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