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title: The inhabitants nearly went wild with joy, but the son of seven Quee… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The inhabitants nearly went wild with joy, but the son of seven Queens said he would not marry the Princess unless they first let him recover his mothers' eyes. Who acts: inhabitants, son. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, with its dependency
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 23

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The inhabitants nearly went wild with joy, but the son of seven Queens said he would not marry the Princess unless they first let him recover his mothers' eyes.

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**Who acts:** inhabitants, son · **What happens:** go, say, not marry, let, recover · **To what, where:** Princess, son, eyes · **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 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (inhabitants, 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:pg7128:19:23
# text = The inhabitants nearly went wild with joy, but the son of seven Queens said he would not marry the Princess unless they first let him recover his mothers' eyes.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	Queens	queen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	25	advmod	_	_
25	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	recover	recover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	mothers	mother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	'	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the inhabitants |  |  |  |  | with joy; nearly, wild *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with joy=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the son of seven Queens |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **marry** | would | son | the Princess |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient |
| 4 | **let** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive | inhabitants *= inhabitant* | son |  |  |  | first *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **recover** | infinitive | son *not said here* | son's mothers's eyes |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |

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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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