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title: In the morning the king came as usual to inquire, and was surprised… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In the morning the king came as usual to inquire, and was surprised to hear his daughter and the prince talking gaily together. " Who acts: king, prince. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 51

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In the morning the king came as usual to inquire, and was surprised to hear his daughter and the prince talking gaily together. "

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**Who acts:** king, prince · **What happens:** come, inquire, be, hear, talk · **To what, where:** daughter

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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 (king, prince), 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:pg7128:18:51
# text = In the morning the king came as usual to inquire, and was surprised to hear his daughter and the prince talking gaily together. "
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	as	as	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	inquire	inquire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	surprised	surprised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
22	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
23	gaily	gaily	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	together	together	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the king |  |  |  | morning | usual *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **inquire** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | the king *not said here* |  |  |  |  | surprised *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **hear** | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* | prince's daughter and the prince |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus |
| 5 | **talk** | gerund | the prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn talk-37.5 «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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