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title: The rat raja entered first to condole with his protector on his misf… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The rat raja entered first to condole with his protector on his misfortune, and undertook to supply his protector with provisions. " Who acts: rat raja. 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 cla
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 9

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The rat raja entered first to condole with his protector on his misfortune, and undertook to supply his protector with provisions. "

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**Who acts:** rat raja · **What happens:** enter, condole, undertake, supply · **To what, where:** misfortune, protector

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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 (rat raja), 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:pg7128:15:9
# text = The rat raja entered first to condole with his protector on his misfortune, and undertook to supply his protector with provisions. "
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	raja	raja	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	condole	condole	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	protector	protector	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	undertook	undertake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	supply	supply	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	protector	protector	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	provisions	provision	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | the rat raja |  |  |  |  | first *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **condole** | to-infinitive | the rat raja *not said here* |  |  | raja's misfortune |  | with raja's protector | tree rules |
| 3 | **undertake** | past | the rat raja *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **supply** | to-infinitive | the rat raja *not said here* | raja's protector |  |  |  | with provisions | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent protector=Recipient with provision=Theme |

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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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