--- title: Then Balna said to her sisters, "Do you not see that girl watching us? — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then Balna said to her sisters, "Do you not see that girl watching us? Who acts: Balna, sisters, girl. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/9/36/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Indian Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/) / [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/9/) / 36 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 36 Then Balna said to her sisters, "Do you not see that girl watching us? **Who acts:** Balna, sisters, girl · **What happens:** say, not see, watch · **To what, where:** sisters, girl, us · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, sisters, girl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7128:9:36 # text = Then Balna said to her sisters, "Do you not see that girl watching us? 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 Balna Balna PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 sisters sister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 Do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 13 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 14 det _ _ 14 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 watching watch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 acl _ _ 16 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Balna | | Balna's sisters | | then | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to sister=Recipient | | 2 | **not** **see** *in a quote* | present · do-support | Balna's sisters *= sister* | that girl | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus | | 3 | **watch** *in a quote* | gerund | that girl *not said here* | us | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/9/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/9/37/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/9/)