--- title: And he, when summoned, tried to gain time, and said, "I will tell yo… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And he, when summoned, tried to gain time, and said, "I will tell you to-morrow," and then he was placed in a chamber by the king, and carefully guarded. Who acts: Harisarman, king. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Harisarman, king), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg7128:957`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7128:15:132 # text = And he, when summoned, tried to gain time, and said, "I will tell you to-morrow," and then he was placed in a chamber by the king, and carefully guarded. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 5 summoned summon VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 advcl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 tried try VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 gain gain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 ccomp _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 iobj _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ _ 22 morrow morrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 24 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 26 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 29 advmod _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 placed place VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 chamber chamber NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 by by ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 38 carefully carefully ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 guarded guard VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 conj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **summon** | participle | Harisarman *not said here* | | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **try** | past | Harisarman | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **gain** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Harisarman *not said here* | | | | time | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Harisarman *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | future | Harisarman | | you | | | to morrow | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Topic to morrow=Recipient | | 6 | **place** | past · passive | the king | Harisarman | | a chamber | then | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in chamber=Destination | | 7 | **guard** | participle | the king *not said here* | | | | | carefully *property* | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | 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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 131](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/15/131/) - next →: [sentence 133](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/15/133/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/15/)