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title: Meanwhile the seven Queens lived luxuriously in a splendid palace, a… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Meanwhile the seven Queens lived luxuriously in a splendid palace, attended by hundreds of female slaves, and fed to their hearts' content on sweetmeats and confectionery. Who acts: seven Queens. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, with its dep
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 103

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Meanwhile the seven Queens lived luxuriously in a splendid palace, attended by hundreds of female slaves, and fed to their hearts' content on sweetmeats and confectionery.

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**Who acts:** seven Queens · **What happens:** live, attend, feed · **To what, where:** splendid palace, content

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (seven Queens), 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:pg7128:18:103
# text = Meanwhile the seven Queens lived luxuriously in a splendid palace, attended by hundreds of female slaves, and fed to their hearts' content on sweetmeats and confectionery.
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	Queens	Queen	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	luxuriously	luxuriously	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	attended	attend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	female	female	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	slaves	slave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	fed	feed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	'	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	content	content	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	sweetmeats	sweetmeat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	confectionery	confectionery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | the seven Queens |  |  | a splendid palace |  | luxuriously, meanwhile *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location |
| 2 | **attend** | participle |  | a splendid palace *not said here* |  |  |  | by hundreds of female slaves | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent by hundred=Theme |
| 3 | **feed** | participle | the seven Queens *not said here* |  | slaves's hearts's content on sweetmeats and confectionery |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to content=Recipient |

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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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