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title: After a great many years he grew more cheerful and happy, and began… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: After a great many years he grew more cheerful and happy, and began to go again into his father's beautiful garden with Husain Mahamat. Who acts: 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 cl
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 85

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After a great many years he grew more cheerful and happy, and began to go again into his father's beautiful garden with Husain Mahamat.

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**Who acts:** Majnun · **What happens:** grow, begin, go · **To what, where:** beautiful garden

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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 (Majnun), 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:pg7128:12:85
# text = After a great many years he grew more cheerful and happy, and began to go again into his father's beautiful garden with Husain Mahamat.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
9	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	again	again	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Husain	Husain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	Mahamat	Mahamat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | Majnun |  |  |  | year | cheerful *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **begin** | past | Majnun *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **go** | to-infinitive | Majnun *not said here* |  |  | Majnun's father's beautiful garden with Husain | again |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into garden=Initial\_Location |

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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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