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title: Tell him you have given up all hopes of again seeing the husband you… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Tell him you have given up all hopes of again seeing the husband you have so long mourned, and say you are willing to marry him. Who acts: you, hopes, husband. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 33

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Tell him you have given up all hopes of again seeing the husband you have so long mourned, and say you are willing to marry him.

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**Who acts:** you, hopes, husband · **What happens:** tell, give up, see, mourn, say, be · **To what, where:** son, hopes, husband, you · **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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, hopes, husband), 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:pg7128:10:33
# text = Tell him you have given up all hopes of again seeing the husband you have so long mourned, and say you are willing to marry him.
1	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	ccomp	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	hopes	hope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	again	again	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
18	mourned	mourn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	willing	willing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	ccomp	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | son |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **give up** | present · perfect | you | all hopes |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hope=Source |
| 3 | **see** | gerund | all hopes *not said here* | the husband |  |  | again |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer husband=Stimulus |
| 4 | **mourn** | present · perfect · passive | the husband *not said here* | you |  |  |  | long *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | willing *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **marry** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | son |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 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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