--- title: Oh!" said the Prince, "I wonder shall I find my wife in that fruit." — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Oh!" said the Prince, "I wonder shall I find my wife in that fruit." Who acts: Prince, I. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, 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/pg7128/13/18/) [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 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/13/) / 18 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 18 Oh!" said the Prince, "I wonder shall I find my wife in that fruit." **Who acts:** Prince, I · **What happens:** say, wonder, find · **To what, where:** wife, fruit · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, I), 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:pg7128:13:18 # text = Oh!" said the Prince, "I wonder shall I find my wife in that fruit." 1 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ! ! PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 " " PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ 4 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 wonder wonder VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 11 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 ccomp _ _ 14 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 18 det _ _ 18 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | the Prince | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | present | I | | | | | | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **find** | shall | I | my wife | | that fruit | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Topic | 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 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/13/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/13/19/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/13/)