--- title: And as they were going through it, Khuda thought, "I should like to… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And as they were going through it, Khuda thought, "I should like to know how much Prince Majnun loves his wife. Who acts: servants, Khuda, Majnun. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/12/79/) [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 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/12/) / 79 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 79 And as they were going through it, Khuda thought, "I should like to know how much Prince Majnun loves his wife. **Who acts:** servants, Khuda, Majnun · **What happens:** go, think, like, know, love · **To what, where:** jungle, wife · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (servants, Khuda, Majnun), 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:pg7128:12:79 # text = And as they were going through it, Khuda thought, "I should like to know how much Prince Majnun loves his wife. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 2 as as SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 6 through through ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 9 Khuda Khuda PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 ccomp _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 19 advmod _ _ 19 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod:desc _ _ 21 Majnun Majnun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 loves love VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 ccomp _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past · progressive | servants *= servant* | | | jungle | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through it=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Khuda | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **like** *in a quote* | should | Khuda | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 4 | **know** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | Khuda *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **love** *in a quote* | present | Majnun much Prince | Majnun's wife | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus | 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 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/12/78/) - next →: [sentence 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/12/80/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/12/)