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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 47

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Balna told her son what Punchkin had said; but at the same time implored him to give up all idea of getting the parrot.

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**Who acts:** Balna, idea · **What happens:** tell, say, implore, give up, get · **To what, where:** son, Punchkin, idea, parrot · **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, idea), 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:pg7128:10:47
# text = Balna told her son what Punchkin had said; but at the same time implored him to give up all idea of getting the parrot.
1	Balna	Balna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	iobj	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
6	Punchkin	Punchkin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
15	implored	implore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	parrot	parrot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Balna |  | wife's son |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent son=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive |  | Punchkin |  |  |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme what=Manner |
| 3 | **implore** | past | Balna *not said here* | son |  |  | time |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **give up** | to-infinitive | Balna *not said here* | all idea |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Source |
| 5 | **get** | gerund | all idea *not said here* | the parrot |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer parrot=Stimulus |

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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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