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title: The Prince, however, replied, "Mother, unless I can get hold of that… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Prince, however, replied, "Mother, unless I can get hold of that parrot, you, and my father, and uncles, cannot be liberated: be not afraid, I will shortly return. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, with its dependency tree and
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 48

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The Prince, however, replied, "Mother, unless I can get hold of that parrot, you, and my father, and uncles, cannot be liberated: be not afraid, I will shortly return.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** reply, get, not liberate, not be, return, hold · **To what, where:** Prince, hold, father, 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 (I), 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:pg7128:10:48
# text = The Prince, however, replied, "Mother, unless I can get hold of that parrot, you, and my father, and uncles, cannot be liberated: be not afraid, I will shortly return.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	replied	reply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
15	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	parrot	parrot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
23	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	uncles	uncle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
29	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	liberated	liberate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	cop	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
36	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
39	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
40	shortly	shortly	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | participle · passive |  | the Prince |  |  |  | Mother *obl*; however *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | can | I | hold of that parrot |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **liberate** *in a quote* | can · passive |  | my father and uncles |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **return** *in a quote* | future | I |  |  |  |  | shortly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **hold** *in a quote* |  |  | that parrot |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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