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title: They gave up all hopes of ever seeing their kind husbands, and their… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They gave up all hopes of ever seeing their kind husbands, and their sister, and her husband, again, and devoted themselves thenceforward to teaching and taking care of their little nephew. Who acts: women, hopes. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, par
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 4

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They gave up all hopes of ever seeing their kind husbands, and their sister, and her husband, again, and devoted themselves thenceforward to teaching and taking care of their little nephew.

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**Who acts:** women, hopes · **What happens:** give up, see, devote, take · **To what, where:** hopes, husband, kind husbands, women, care

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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 (women, hopes), 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:pg7128:10:4
# text = They gave up all hopes of ever seeing their kind husbands, and their sister, and her husband, again, and devoted themselves thenceforward to teaching and taking care of their little nephew.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	hopes	hope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	8	advmod	_	_
8	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	husbands	husband	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	again	again	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	devoted	devote	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
25	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	24	obj	_	_
26	thenceforward	thenceforward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	teaching	teaching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	conj	_	_
31	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	nephew	nephew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give up** | past | women *= woman* | all hopes | dog's husband |  |  | women's sister *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | gerund | all hopes *not said here* | women's kind husbands |  |  | ever |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer husband=Stimulus |
| 3 | **devote** | past | women *= woman* *not said here* | women *= woman* |  |  |  | to teaching | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | gerund | women *= woman* *not said here* | care |  |  |  | of women's little nephew | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of nephew=Initial\_Location |

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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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