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title: And to the horror of all the Court, the scales were brought; and in… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And to the horror of all the Court, the scales were brought; and in the presence of the Queen they prepared to slice off the weight of the bird from the King’s right side. Who acts: scales. A sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Opening,
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 133

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And to the horror of all the Court, the scales were brought; and in the presence of the Queen they prepared to slice off the weight of the bird from the King’s right side.

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**Who acts:** scales · **What happens:** bring, prepare · **To what, where:** scales, horror, slice, presence

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This is a sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (scales), 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:pg69647:2:133
# text = And to the horror of all the Court, the scales were brought; and in the presence of the Queen they prepared to slice off the weight of the bird from the King’s right side.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	horror	horror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	scales	scale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	slice	slice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	off	off	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	’s	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past · passive |  | the scales |  | the horror of all Court |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to horror=Destination |
| 2 | **prepare** | past | scales *= scale* | slice |  | the presence of the Queen |  | off the weight of the bird from the King's right side | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slice=Patient |

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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 tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Project Gutenberg book 69647 (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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