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title: But Balna replied, "If you let her come here so often, maybe she wil… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But Balna replied, "If you let her come here so often, maybe she will do us some harm, and make us sorry for it, some day." 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 24

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But Balna replied, "If you let her come here so often, maybe she will do us some harm, and make us sorry for it, some day."

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**Who acts:** Balna, you · **What happens:** reply, let, come, do, make · **To what, where:** Balna, harm, us · **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:pg7128:9:24
# text = But Balna replied, "If you let her come here so often, maybe she will do us some harm, and make us sorry for it, some day."
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Balna	Balna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	let	let	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
11	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	often	often	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	maybe	maybe	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
19	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	iobj	_	_
20	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
25	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	31	det	_	_
31	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Balna |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **let** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you | Balna |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  | here |  | often *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **do** *in a quote* | future | Balna | some harm | us |  |  | maybe *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | us |  |  | day | sorry *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset we=Product |

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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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