--- title: Then the Malee's wife said, "This country and this palace belong to… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then the Malee's wife said, "This country and this palace belong to a great enchanter; he is all powerful, and if any one displeases him, he can turn them into stones and trees. Who acts: wife, country, one, enchanter. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/10/13/) [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 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/10/) / 13 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 13 Then the Malee's wife said, "This country and this palace belong to a great enchanter; he is all powerful, and if any one displeases him, he can turn them into stones and trees. **Who acts:** wife, country, one, enchanter · **What happens:** say, belong, be, displease, turn · **To what, where:** enchanter, uncles, stones · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, country, one, enchanter), 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:pg7128:10:13 # text = Then the Malee's wife said, "This country and this palace belong to a great enchanter; he is all powerful, and if any one displeases him, he can turn them into stones and trees. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Malee Malee PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 This this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 10 det _ _ 10 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 13 det _ _ 13 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 14 belong belong VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 enchanter enchanter NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 all all ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 powerful powerful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 26 if if SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 27 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 28 det _ _ 28 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 displeases displease VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 advcl _ _ 30 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 35 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 into into ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Malee's wife | | | | then | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **belong** *in a quote* | present | this country and this palace | | | | | to a great enchanter | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | country | | | | | all, powerful *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **displease** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | any one | enchanter | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | | 5 | **turn** *in a quote* | can | enchanter | uncles *= uncle* | | stones and trees | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme into stone=Trajectory | 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 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/10/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/10/14/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/10/)