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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 39

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When Hiraman parrot found himself left alone, he called out to the other parrots, "Don't fly away and leave me alone when the Raja's son shoots.

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**Who acts:** Hiraman parrot, Raja, son · **What happens:** find, leave, call out, not fly away, shoot · **To what, where:** Raja, other parrots · **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 (Hiraman parrot, Raja, son), 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:pg7128:7:39
# text = When Hiraman parrot found himself left alone, he called out to the other parrots, "Don't fly away and leave me alone when the Raja's son shoots.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	Hiraman	Hiraman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	parrot	parrot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
5	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obj	_	_
6	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
7	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	parrots	parrot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
21	away	away	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
26	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	31	mark	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Raja	Raja	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	shoots	shoot	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | Hiraman parrot | Raja |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic |
| 2 | **leave** | participle | Hiraman parrot *not said here* |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **call out** *speech: assert* | past | Raja |  | the other parrots |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to parrot=Recipient |
| 4 | **not** **fly away** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | Raja *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **leave** *in a quote* | infinitive | Raja *not said here* | Raja |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 6 | **shoot** *in a quote* | present | the Raja's son |  |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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