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title: After this he set off to marry the Princess, as he had promised, but… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: After this he set off to marry the Princess, as he had promised, but when passing by the white Queen's palace he saw some pigeons on the roof. Who acts: lad. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 29

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After this he set off to marry the Princess, as he had promised, but when passing by the white Queen's palace he saw some pigeons on the roof.

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**Who acts:** lad · **What happens:** set off, marry, promise, pass, see · **To what, where:** Princess, pigeons, roof

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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 (lad), 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:pg7128:19:29
# text = After this he set off to marry the Princess, as he had promised, but when passing by the white Queen's palace he saw some pigeons on the roof.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	promised	promise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
18	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
27	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	det	_	_
28	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	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 | **set off** | past | lad |  |  |  | after this |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **marry** | to-infinitive | lad *not said here* | the Princess |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient |
| 3 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past · perfect | lad |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **pass** | gerund | lad *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the white Queen's palace | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by palace=Location |
| 5 | **see** | past | lad | some pigeons |  | the roof |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pigeon=Stimulus |

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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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