--- title: Having eaten her own share, she placed that of the chief's son under… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Having eaten her own share, she placed that of the chief's son under his bed, and covering it up to keep off the dust, re-entered the fiddle. Who acts: girl. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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:pg7128:11:53 # text = Having eaten her own share, she placed that of the chief's son under his bed, and covering it up to keep off the dust, re-entered the fiddle. 1 Having have VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 2 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 xcomp _ _ 3 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 share share NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 7 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 placed place VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 that that SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 9 fixed _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 chief chief NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 13 's 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 advcl _ _ 15 under under ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 covering cover VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 up up ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 advcl _ _ 25 off off ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 dust dust NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 re-entered re-enter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 fiddle fiddle NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | gerund | girl *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **eat** | participle | girl *not said here* | girl's own share | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Patient | | 3 | **place** | past | girl | | | son's bed | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent under bed=Destination | | 4 | **cover up** | gerund | girl *not said here* | share | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination | | 5 | **keep off** | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* | the dust | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dust=Theme | | 6 | **re-enter** | past | girl *not said here* | the fiddle | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **share** | | girl | | | | | | nom share «possession transitive»: poss=agent | 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 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/52/) - next →: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/54/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/)