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title: Then call your demons," said the Raja's son, "and these tigers will… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then call your demons," said the Raja's son, "and these tigers will fight them." Who acts: tigers. 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 86

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Then call your demons," said the Raja's son, "and these tigers will fight them."

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**Who acts:** tigers · **What happens:** call, say, fight · **To what, where:** demons, son · **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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tigers), 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:pg7128:8:86
# text = Then call your demons," said the Raja's son, "and these tigers will fight them."
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	demons	demon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Raja	Raja	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	tigers	tiger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  | your demons |  | then |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent demon=Recipient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past |  | the Raja's son |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fight** | future | this tigers | demons *= demon* |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-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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