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title: He spoke to the ring, and his beautiful wife and house reappeared, a… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He spoke to the ring, and his beautiful wife and house reappeared, and he and everybody were as happy as ever they could be. Who acts: sorrow, beautiful wife. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 45

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He spoke to the ring, and his beautiful wife and house reappeared, and he and everybody were as happy as ever they could be.

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**Who acts:** sorrow, beautiful wife · **What happens:** speak, reappear, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sorrow, beautiful wife), 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:pg7128:17:45
# text = He spoke to the ring, and his beautiful wife and house reappeared, and he and everybody were as happy as ever they could be.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	reappeared	reappear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	16	conj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	as	as	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	parataxis	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	21	obl	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | sorrow |  |  |  |  | to the ring | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to ring=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **reappear** | past | sorrow's beautiful wife and house |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | sorrow |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | tree rules |

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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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