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title: "O king!" replied the prince, "I am the son of a king who rules over… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "O king!" replied the prince, "I am the son of a king who rules over such-and-such a country." Who acts: king. 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 clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 55

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"O king!" replied the prince, "I am the son of a king who rules over such-and-such a country."

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** reply, be, rule · **To what, where:** prince, son, such country · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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), 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:pg7128:18:55
# text = "O king!" replied the prince, "I am the son of a king who rules over such-and-such a country."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	ccomp	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
20	over	over	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
21	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	27	det:predet	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | king | the prince |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prince=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | king | the son |  |  |  | of a king and rules | tree rules |
| 3 | **rule** *in a quote* |  | a king and rules |  |  | such such country |  |  | tree rules |

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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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