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title: Clad in his own clothes, the prince was walking along one day when h… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Clad in his own clothes, the prince was walking along one day when he saw a potter crying and laughing alternately with his wife and children. " Who acts: Clad, prince, potter. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, with its dependency tree and th
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 28

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Clad in his own clothes, the prince was walking along one day when he saw a potter crying and laughing alternately with his wife and children. "

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**Who acts:** Clad, prince, potter · **What happens:** walk, see, cry, laugh · **To what, where:** potter

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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 (Clad, prince, potter), 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:pg7128:18:28
# text = Clad in his own clothes, the prince was walking along one day when he saw a potter crying and laughing alternately with his wife and children. "
1	Clad	Clad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
11	along	along	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	potter	potter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	conj	_	_
22	alternately	alternately	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past · progressive | Clad in Clad's own clothes |  |  |  | day |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | prince | a potter |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer potter=Stimulus |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | a potter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **laugh** | gerund | a potter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | alternately *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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