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title: Now, as the son of seven Queens could not read, he took the fatal me… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now, as the son of seven Queens could not read, he took the fatal message cheerfully, and set off to find the white Queen's mother. Who acts: son. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 16

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Now, as the son of seven Queens could not read, he took the fatal message cheerfully, and set off to find the white Queen's mother.

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**Who acts:** son · **What happens:** not read, take, set off, find · **To what, where:** fatal message, mother

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), 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:pg7128:19:16
# text = Now, as the son of seven Queens could not read, he took the fatal message cheerfully, and set off to find the white Queen's mother.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	Queens	queen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	fatal	fatal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	cheerfully	cheerfully	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
22	off	off	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	's	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **read** | could | the son of seven Queens |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take** | past | son | the fatal message |  |  |  | cheerfully *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme |
| 3 | **set off** | infinitive | the son of seven Queens *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **find** | to-infinitive | the son of seven Queens *not said here* | the white Queen's mother |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Topic |

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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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