--- title: Two months after this, the Brahman's wife, not having heard any news… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Two months after this, the Brahman's wife, not having heard any news of her husband, left the house and went in quest of him. Who acts: wife, Two months, king. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/90/) [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/) / 90 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 90 Two months after this, the Brahman's wife, not having heard any news of her husband, left the house and went in quest of him. **Who acts:** wife, Two months, king · **What happens:** not hear, leave, go, quest · **To what, where:** news, house, quest 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 (wife, Two months, king), 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:pg7128:17:90 # text = Two months after this, the Brahman's wife, not having heard any news of her husband, left the house and went in quest of him. 1 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 3 after after ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Brahman Brahman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 12 having have AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 aux _ _ 13 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 acl:relcl _ _ 14 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 15 det _ _ 15 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 20 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 quest quest NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **hear** | gerund · perfect | the Brahman's wife *not said here* | any news of measure's husband | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus | | 2 | **leave** | past | Two months after this | the house | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | | 3 | **go** | past | Two months after this *not said here* | | | quest of king | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in quest=Location | | 4 | **quest** | | king | | | | | | nom quest «cognition intransitive»: of=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/89/) - next →: [sentence 91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/91/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/)