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title: So the son of seven Queens set off, and soon came to the field where… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So the son of seven Queens set off, and soon came to the field where, guarded by eighteen millions of demons, the million-fold rice grew. Who acts: son, fold rice. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 53

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So the son of seven Queens set off, and soon came to the field where, guarded by eighteen millions of demons, the million-fold rice grew.

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**Who acts:** son, fold rice · **What happens:** set off, come, guard, grow · **To what, where:** field

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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, fold rice), 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:pg7128:19:53
# text = So the son of seven Queens set off, and soon came to the field where, guarded by eighteen millions of demons, the million-fold rice grew.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	Queens	queen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	off	off	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
12	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	guarded	guard	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	demons	demon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
26	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	fold	fold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set off** | past | the son of seven Queens |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | the son of seven Queens *not said here* |  |  | the field |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to field=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **guard** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by eighteen millions of demons | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **grow** | past | the fold rice |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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