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title: This boy was very fond of playing with the Wazir's son, Husain Maham… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This boy was very fond of playing with the Wazir's son, Husain Mahamat, in King Dantal's garden, which was very large and full of delicious fruits, and flowers, and trees. Who acts: boy, garden. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, with its depen
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 140

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This boy was very fond of playing with the Wazir's son, Husain Mahamat, in King Dantal's garden, which was very large and full of delicious fruits, and flowers, and trees.

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**Who acts:** boy, garden · **What happens:** be, play · **To what, where:** garden

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, garden), 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:pg7128:11:140
# text = This boy was very fond of playing with the Wazir's son, Husain Mahamat, in King Dantal's garden, which was very large and full of delicious fruits, and flowers, and trees.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Wazir	Wazir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Husain	Husain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
15	Mahamat	Mahamat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	_
19	Dantal	Dantal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
21	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	very	very	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	delicious	delicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	fruits	fruit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | this boy |  |  |  |  | flowers and trees *obl*; fond *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **play** | gerund | this boy *not said here* |  |  | King's garden |  | with the Wazir's son | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with son=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | King's garden |  |  |  |  | large *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | King's garden *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of delicious fruits | tree rules |

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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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