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title: The Prince answered, "Let the seven Raja's sons whom you turned into… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Prince answered, "Let the seven Raja's sons whom you turned into rocks and trees be instantly liberated." Who acts: Prince, you. 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 66

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The Prince answered, "Let the seven Raja's sons whom you turned into rocks and trees be instantly liberated."

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**Who acts:** Prince, you · **What happens:** answer, let, turn, liberate · **To what, where:** rocks, seven sons · **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 (Prince, you), 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:pg7128:10:66
# text = The Prince answered, "Let the seven Raja's sons whom you turned into rocks and trees be instantly liberated."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
9	Raja	Raja	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
12	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	obj	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	csubj	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
20	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	liberated	liberate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the Prince |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **turn** *in a quote* | past | you |  |  | rocks and trees |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent whom=Theme into rock=Trajectory |
| 4 | **liberate** *in a quote* | infinitive · passive |  | Raja's seven sons |  |  |  | instantly *property* | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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