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title: Whatever sweetmeats or bread are prepared in any house, one and all… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Whatever sweetmeats or bread are prepared in any house, one and all of you must try to bring whatever you can to our benefactor. Who acts: all. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 10

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Whatever sweetmeats or bread are prepared in any house, one and all of you must try to bring whatever you can to our benefactor.

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**Who acts:** all · **What happens:** prepare, try, bring · **To what, where:** sweetmeats, house, whatever, benefactor

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (all), 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:pg7128:15:10
# text = Whatever sweetmeats or bread are prepared in any house, one and all of you must try to bring whatever you can to our benefactor.
1	Whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	det:predet	_	_
2	sweetmeats	sweetmeat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	appos	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	_
16	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	obj	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	benefactor	benefactor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prepare** | present · passive |  | whatever sweetmeats or bread |  | any house |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **try** | must | all |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **bring** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | all *not said here* | whatever |  | our benefactor |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent whatever=Theme to benefactor=Destination |

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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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