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title: King Dantal was now a very old man, and Husain Mahamat, though he wa… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: King Dantal was now a very old man, and Husain Mahamat, though he was really only as old as Prince Majnun, looked a great deal older than the prince, who had been made quite young again when he married Laili. Who acts: King, old man. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Ma
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 104

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King Dantal was now a very old man, and Husain Mahamat, though he was really only as old as Prince Majnun, looked a great deal older than the prince, who had been made quite young again when he married Laili.

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**Who acts:** King, old man · **What happens:** be, look, make, marry · **To what, where:** old man, great deal, prince, Laili

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, old man), 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:pg7128:12:104
# text = King Dantal was now a very old man, and Husain Mahamat, though he was really only as old as Prince Majnun, looked a great deal older than the prince, who had been made quite young again when he married Laili.
1	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	Dantal	Dantal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	Husain	Husain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	Mahamat	Mahamat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
17	really	really	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	only	only	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	as	as	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	Majnun	Majnun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
25	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	28	amod	_	_
30	than	than	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl:relcl	_	_
38	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	xcomp	_	_
40	again	again	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
41	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	43	advmod	_	_
42	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	married	marry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	advcl	_	_
44	Laili	Laili	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | King | a old man |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | king |  |  |  |  | as Prince; old *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | past | a old man | a great deal |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme deal=Attribute |
| 4 | **make** | past · perfect · passive |  | the prince |  |  | again | young *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 5 | **marry** | past | king | Laili |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laili=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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