--- title: To this the son of seven Queens, after a little pretended hesitation… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: To this the son of seven Queens, after a little pretended hesitation, agreed, saying that after all it would not be difficult to find a nice tough skin like the Jogi's elsewhere; so, driving the wonderful cow before him, he set off homewards. Who acts: lad. 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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. **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:pg7128:19:43 # text = To this the son of seven Queens, after a little pretended hesitation, agreed, saying that after all it would not be difficult to find a nice tough skin like the Jogi's elsewhere; so, driving the wonderful cow before him, he set off homewards. 1 To to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 det _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 Queens queen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 after after ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 pretended pretend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 amod _ _ 13 hesitation hesitation NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 agreed agree VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 18 that that SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 19 after after ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 25 obl _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 expl _ _ 22 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 24 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 cop _ _ 25 difficult difficult ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 ccomp _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 csubj _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 29 nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 30 tough tough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 32 like like ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 Jogi Jogi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 35 's 's PART POS _ 34 case _ _ 36 elsewhere elsewhere ADV RB _ 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ; ; PUNCT : _ 48 punct _ _ 38 so so ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 driving drive VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 38 advcl _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 wonderful wonderful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 44 before before ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 47 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 48 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl _ _ 49 off off ADP RP _ 48 compound:prt _ _ 50 homewards homeward NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 48 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pretend** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* | participle | | a little pretended hesitation *not said here* | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **is** | would | | | | | after all | difficult *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **find** | to-infinitive | | a nice tough skin | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Topic | | 6 | **drive** | gerund | lad *not said here* | the wonderful cow | | | before lad | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cow=Theme before he=Destination | | 7 | **set off** | past | lad | homewards | | | | | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition homeward=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/19/42/) - next →: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/19/44/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/19/)