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title: One day, not long after this had happened, as Balna was rocking her… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: One day, not long after this had happened, as Balna was rocking her baby's cradle, and whilst her sisters were working in the room below, there came to the palace door a man in a long black dress, who said that he was a Fakir, and came to beg. Who acts: this, Balna, sisters, long black dress. A sent
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 89

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One day, not long after this had happened, as Balna was rocking her baby's cradle, and whilst her sisters were working in the room below, there came to the palace door a man in a long black dress, who said that he was a Fakir, and came to beg.

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**Who acts:** this, Balna, sisters, long black dress, husband · **What happens:** happen, rock, work, come, say, be · **To what, where:** cradle, man, palace door, Fakir · **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 (this, Balna, sisters, long black dress), 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:pg7128:9:89
# text = One day, not long after this had happened, as Balna was rocking her baby's cradle, and whilst her sisters were working in the room below, there came to the palace door a man in a long black dress, who said that he was a Fakir, and came to beg.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
6	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	Balna	Balna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	rocking	rock	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	cradle	cradle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	below	below	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	32	expl	_	_
32	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	xcomp	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
41	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
42	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	46	nsubj	_	_
46	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	conj	_	_
47	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
48	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
49	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	cop	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	Fakir	fakir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
55	to	to	PART	TO	_	56	mark	_	_
56	beg	beg	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	54	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past · perfect | this |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **rock** | past · progressive | Balna | Balna's baby's cradle |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cradle=Theme |
| 3 | **work** | past · progressive | Balna's sisters |  |  |  |  | in the room; below *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in room=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | past |  | a man in a long black dress |  | the palace door; there |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a long black dress |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** | past | husband | a Fakir |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **come** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **beg** *speech: request* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=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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