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title: Meanwhile Lambikin trundled along, laughing to himself, and singing: — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Meanwhile Lambikin trundled along, laughing to himself, and singing: Who acts: Lambikin. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 158

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Meanwhile Lambikin trundled along, laughing to himself, and singing:

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**Who acts:** Lambikin · **What happens:** trundle along, laugh, sing · **To what, where:** Lambikin

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lambikin), 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:pg7128:8:158
# text = Meanwhile Lambikin trundled along, laughing to himself, and singing:
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Lambikin	Lambikin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	trundled	trundle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	along	along	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	advcl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trundle along** | past | Lambikin |  |  |  |  | along, meanwhile *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **laugh** | gerund | Lambikin *not said here* |  | Lambikin |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | Lambikin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «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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