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title: “One demon’s skin will not do,” said the king sternly; “besides the… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: “One demon’s skin will not do,” said the king sternly; “besides the skin of a blind demon would sound hollow.” Who acts: skin, king. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 108

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“One demon’s skin will not do,” said the king sternly; “besides the skin of a blind demon would sound hollow.”

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**Who acts:** skin, king · **What happens:** not do, say, sound · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (skin, king), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg76982:19:108
# text = “One demon’s skin will not do,” said the king sternly; “besides the skin of a blind demon would sound hollow.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	demon	demon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	sternly	sternly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	besides	besides	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	demon	demon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	sound	sound	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
26	hollow	hollow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **do** *in a quote* | future | One demon's skin |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the king |  |  |  |  | sternly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **sound** *in a quote* | would |  |  |  |  |  | besides the skin of a blind demon; hollow *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:** «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (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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