--- title: So he told his story to the Malee's wife, and begged her to help him… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: So he told his story to the Malee's wife, and begged her to help him to remain in that place awhile and inquire further concerning the unhappy people she mentioned; and she promised to befriend him, and advised his disguising himself lest the Magician should see him, and turn him likewise into stone --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/10/18/) [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/) / 18 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 18 So he told his story to the Malee's wife, and begged her to help him to remain in that place awhile and inquire further concerning the unhappy people she mentioned; and she promised to befriend him, and advised his disguising himself lest the Magician should see him, and turn him likewise into stone. **Who acts:** Prince, wife, Magician · **What happens:** tell, beg, help, remain, inquire, concern · **To what, where:** story, wife, Prince, place, unhappy people, disguising · **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 (Prince, wife, Magician), 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:pg7128:10:18 # text = So he told his story to the Malee's wife, and begged her to help him to remain in that place awhile and inquire further concerning the unhappy people she mentioned; and she promised to befriend him, and advised his disguising himself lest the Magician should see him, and turn him likewise into stone. 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 Malee Malee PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 begged beg VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 14 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 17 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 remain remain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 22 det _ _ 22 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 awhile awhile ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 inquire inquire VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 26 further far ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 25 advmod _ _ 27 concerning concern VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 advcl _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 unhappy unhappy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 31 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 mentioned mention VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ; ; PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 promised promise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 befriend befriend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ _ 39 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 advised advise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 43 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 disguising disguising NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ _ 45 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 42 obl _ _ 46 lest lest SCONJ IN _ 50 mark _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 Magician magician NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nsubj _ _ 49 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 50 aux _ _ 50 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 advcl _ _ 51 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 50 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 53 and and CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 54 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 50 conj _ _ 55 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 54 obj _ _ 56 likewise likewise ADV RB _ 54 advmod _ _ 57 into into ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 58 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 59 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Prince | Prince's story | the Malee's wife | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Topic to wife=Recipient | | 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | Prince *not said here* | | wife | | | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | | 3 | **help** | to-infinitive | Prince *not said here* | Prince | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 4 | **remain** | to-infinitive | Prince *not said here* | | | that place | | awhile *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location | | 5 | **inquire** *speech: other* | infinitive | Prince *not said here* | | | | | far *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **concern** | gerund | Prince *not said here* | the unhappy people | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer | | 7 | **mention** *speech: other* | past | wife | the unhappy people *not said here* | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent people=Topic | | 8 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | wife | | | | | | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 9 | **befriend** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | wife *not said here* | Prince | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **advise** *speech: other* | past | Prince *not said here* | Prince's disguising | | | | Prince *obl* | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent disguising=Recipient | | 11 | **see** | should | the Magician | Prince | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | | 12 | **turn** | infinitive | the Magician *not said here* | Prince | | stone | | likewise *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=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 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/10/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/10/19/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/10/)