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title: Let us drive her away, or hide the pomeloes, else she will go and te… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Let us drive her away, or hide the pomeloes, else she will go and tell her mother all about it, and that will be very bad for us." Who acts: you, us, Balna, that. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 37

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Let us drive her away, or hide the pomeloes, else she will go and tell her mother all about it, and that will be very bad for us."

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**Who acts:** you, us, Balna, that · **What happens:** let, drive away, hide, go, tell, be · **To what, where:** us, Balna, pomeloes, mother · **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 (you, us, Balna, that), 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:pg7128:9:37
# text = Let us drive her away, or hide the pomeloes, else she will go and tell her mother all about it, and that will be very bad for us."
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	hide	hide	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pomeloes	pomeloe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	else	else	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	all	all	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
21	about	about	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	nsubj	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	cop	_	_
28	very	very	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **drive away** | infinitive | us *not said here* | Balna |  |  |  | away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 3 | **hide** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the pomeloes |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pomeloe=Patient |
| 4 | **go** | future | Balna |  |  |  |  | else *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Balna *not said here* |  | Balna's mother |  |  | about grave; all *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient about it=Topic |
| 6 | **is** | future | that |  |  |  |  | for us; bad *property* | tree rules |

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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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