--- title: Now at that time it happened that the king was seeking for a Brahman… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Now at that time it happened that the king was seeking for a Brahman to look after a golden temple which he had just had built. Who acts: it, king, golden temple. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/87/) [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 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/) / 87 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 87 Now at that time it happened that the king was seeking for a Brahman to look after a golden temple which he had just had built. **Who acts:** it, king, golden temple · **What happens:** happen, seek, look, have, build · **To what, where:** golden temple 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 (it, king, golden temple), 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:pg7128:17:87 # text = Now at that time it happened that the king was seeking for a Brahman to look after a golden temple which he had just had built. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ _ 2 at at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 det _ _ 4 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 that that SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 seeking seek VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 Brahman brahman NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 17 after after ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 temple temple NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 21 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 obj _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 just just ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 had have VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 20 acl:relcl _ _ 26 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 27 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | past | it | | | | now; time | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **seek** | past · progressive | the king | | | | | for a Brahman | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for brahman=Theme | | 3 | **look** | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* | | | | after a golden temple | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **have** | past · perfect | king | a golden temple | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **build** | participle | a golden temple *not said here* | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/86/) - next →: [sentence 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/88/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/)