--- title: Now it happened one day that a poor old fakir came to the King, and… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Now it happened one day that a poor old fakir came to the King, and said, "Your prayers are heard, your desire shall be accomplished, and one of your seven Queens shall bear a son." Who acts: it, poor old fakir, one, Your. 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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 (it, poor old fakir, one, Your), 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:pg7128:18:101 # text = Now it happened one day that a poor old fakir came to the King, and said, "Your prayers are heard, your desire shall be accomplished, and one of your seven Queens shall bear a son." 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 fakir fakir NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 prayers prayer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 22 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 desire desire NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 accomplished accomplish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 32 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 38 nsubj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 35 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 36 nummod _ _ 36 Queens queen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nmod _ _ 37 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 bear bear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 ccomp _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | past | it | | | | now; day | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **come** | past | a poor old fakir | | | | | to the King | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **hear** *in a quote* | present · passive | | Your prayers | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | | 5 | **accomplish** *in a quote* | shall · passive | | your desire | | | | | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 6 | **bear** *in a quote* | shall | one of your seven Queens | a son | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | | 7 | **pray** *in a quote* | | Your | | | | | | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent | | 8 | **desire** *in a quote* | | your | | | | | | nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=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 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/100/) - next →: [sentence 102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/102/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/)