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title: Balna turned to her, angrily, and said, "Why don't you keep fuel in… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Balna turned to her, angrily, and said, "Why don't you keep fuel in your own house, and not come here every day and take ours? Who acts: Balna, you. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 21

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Balna turned to her, angrily, and said, "Why don't you keep fuel in your own house, and not come here every day and take ours?

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**Who acts:** Balna, you · **What happens:** turn, say, not keep, not come, take · **To what, where:** woman, fuel, own house, ours · **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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Balna, you), 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:pg7128:9:21
# text = Balna turned to her, angrily, and said, "Why don't you keep fuel in your own house, and not come here every day and take ours?
1	Balna	Balna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	angrily	angrily	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
13	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
17	fuel	fuel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
26	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
27	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
28	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
31	ours	our	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | Balna |  | woman |  |  | angrily *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Balna *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **keep** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | fuel |  | your own house |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fuel=Theme in house=Location |
| 4 | **not** **come** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  | here | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | ours |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent our=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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