--- title: The Magician immediately waved his wand again; and, whilst he cried,… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The Magician immediately waved his wand again; and, whilst he cried, in an imploring voice, "Give me my parrot!" the whole garden became suddenly alive: where rocks, and stones, and trees had been before, stood Rajas, and Punts, and Sirdars, and mighty men on prancing horses, and jewelled pages, and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/10/71/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Indian Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/) / [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/10/) / 71 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 71 The Magician immediately waved his wand again; and, whilst he cried, in an imploring voice, "Give me my parrot!" the whole garden became suddenly alive: where rocks, and stones, and trees had been before, stood Rajas, and Punts, and Sirdars, and mighty men on prancing horses, and jewelled pages, and troops of armed attendants. **Who acts:** Magician, Prince, whole garden, rocks, mighty men · **What happens:** wave, cry, implore, give, become, be · **To what, where:** wand, imploring voice, parrot, Magician, Rajas, pages · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Magician, Prince, whole garden, rocks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7128:10:71 # text = The Magician immediately waved his wand again; and, whilst he cried, in an imploring voice, "Give me my parrot!" the whole garden became suddenly alive: where rocks, and stones, and trees had been before, stood Rajas, and Punts, and Sirdars, and mighty men on prancing horses, and jewelled pages, and troops of armed attendants. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Magician magician NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 immediately immediately ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 waved wave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 wand wand NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 again again ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 11 whilst whilst SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 imploring implore VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 amod _ _ 18 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 Give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ _ 22 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 iobj _ _ 23 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 parrot parrot NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ! ! PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 31 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 alive alive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 33 : : PUNCT : _ 46 punct _ _ 34 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 46 advmod _ _ 35 rocks rock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 41 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 nsubj _ _ 42 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 43 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 44 cop _ _ 44 before before ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 46 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 47 Rajas raja NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 49 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 50 Punts punt NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 51 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 52 and and CCONJ CC _ 53 cc _ _ 53 Sirdars sirdar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 50 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 54 , , PUNCT , _ 63 punct _ _ 55 and and CCONJ CC _ 63 cc _ _ 56 mighty mighty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 57 amod _ _ 57 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 63 nsubj _ _ 58 on on ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 59 prancing prancing NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 compound _ _ 60 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 57 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 61 , , PUNCT , _ 63 punct _ _ 62 and and CCONJ CC _ 63 cc _ _ 63 jewelled jewell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 conj _ _ 64 pages page NOUN NNS Number=Plur 63 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 65 , , PUNCT , _ 70 punct _ _ 66 and and CCONJ CC _ 70 cc _ _ 67 troops troops NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 70 nsubj _ _ 68 of of ADP IN _ 70 case _ _ 69 armed armed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 70 amod _ _ 70 attendants attendant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 71 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wave** | past | the Magician | Prince's wand | | | | of armed attendants; immediately *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Prince | | | a imploring voice | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in voice=Location | | 3 | **implore** | gerund | | | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive | the Magician *not said here* | my parrot | the Magician *= magician* | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient parrot=Theme | | 5 | **become** | past | the whole garden | | | | | alive *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **is** | past · perfect | | | | | | before *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **stand** | past | rocks and stones | Rajas | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer raja=Stimulus | | 8 | **jewell** | past | mighty men on prancing horses | pages | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/10/70/) - next →: [sentence 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/10/72/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/10/)