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title: Then, when all was prepared, she bade her husband give a grand feast… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, when all was prepared, she bade her husband give a grand feast to the King. Who acts: witch. 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 63

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Then, when all was prepared, she bade her husband give a grand feast to the King.

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**Who acts:** witch · **What happens:** prepare, bid, give · **To what, where:** all, husband, grand feast, King

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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 (witch), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg7128:1349`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7128:19:63
# text = Then, when all was prepared, she bade her husband give a grand feast to the King.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	bade	bid	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prepare** | past · passive |  | all |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **bid** | past | witch | witch's husband |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | infinitive | witch *not said here* | a grand feast | the King |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent feast=Theme to king=Recipient |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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