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title: As it happened, the prince left the Phalana kingdom that night, and… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As it happened, the prince left the Phalana kingdom that night, and when Laili heard he was gone, she went quite mad. Who acts: it, prince, Laili. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 22

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As it happened, the prince left the Phalana kingdom that night, and when Laili heard he was gone, she went quite mad.

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**Who acts:** it, prince, Laili · **What happens:** happen, leave, hear, be, go · **To what, where:** Phalana kingdom · **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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, prince, Laili), 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:pg7128:12:22
# text = As it happened, the prince left the Phalana kingdom that night, and when Laili heard he was gone, she went quite mad.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Phalana	Phalana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
16	Laili	Laili	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
24	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** | past | the prince | the Phalana kingdom |  |  | night |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme |
| 3 | **hear** | past | Laili |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | past | Prince |  |  |  |  | gone *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** | past | Laili |  |  |  |  | mad *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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