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title: Balna determined to take her son's advice; and the next day sent for… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Balna determined to take her son's advice; and the next day sent for Punchkin, and spoke to him as had been suggested. Who acts: Balna. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 35

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Balna determined to take her son's advice; and the next day sent for Punchkin, and spoke to him as had been suggested.

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**Who acts:** Balna · **What happens:** determine, take, send, speak, suggest · **To what, where:** advice, next day, son · **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 (Balna), 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:pg7128:10:35
# text = Balna determined to take her son's advice; and the next day sent for Punchkin, and spoke to him as had been suggested.
1	Balna	Balna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	determined	determine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Punchkin	Punchkin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	as	as	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	suggested	suggest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **determine** | past | Balna |  |  |  | day |  | vn discover-84 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **take** | to-infinitive | Balna *not said here* | Magician's son's advice |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme |
| 3 | **send** | participle |  | the next day *not said here* |  |  |  | for Punchkin | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | past |  |  | son |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | past · perfect · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S» |

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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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