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title: "As I feed on blood, And always hunt for prey, 'Tis much that thou a… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "As I feed on blood, And always hunt for prey, 'Tis much that thou art still alive Having once been between my teeth." Who acts: Lion, you, Having. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 23

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"As I feed on blood, And always hunt for prey, 'Tis much that thou art still alive Having once been between my teeth."

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**Who acts:** Lion, you, Having · **What happens:** feed, hunt, have, be · **To what, where:** Tis · **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 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lion, you, Having), 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:pg7128:7:23
# text = "As I feed on blood, And always hunt for prey, 'Tis much that thou art still alive Having once been between my teeth."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	feed	feed	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	10	advmod	_	_
10	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Tis	Tis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
16	much	much	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nsubj	_	_
19	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
20	still	still	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
22	Having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	csubj	_	_
23	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	22	advmod	_	_
24	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	cop	_	_
25	between	between	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** *in a quote* | present | the Lion *= lion* |  |  |  |  | on blood | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on blood=Patient |
| 2 | **hunt** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | Tis |  |  |  | for prey; always *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent tis=Location for prey=Theme |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | participle | Having |  |  |  |  | between my alive teeth | 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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