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title: And when he had thus spoken, both Mallika the king and his chariotee… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And when he had thus spoken, both Mallika the king and his charioteer alighted from their chariot. Who acts: charioteer. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 34

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And when he had thus spoken, both Mallika the king and his charioteer alighted from their chariot.

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**Who acts:** charioteer · **What happens:** speak, alight · **To what, where:** Mallika, charioteer, chariot · **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 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (charioteer), 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:pg7128:20:34
# text = And when he had thus spoken, both Mallika the king and his charioteer alighted from their chariot.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	Mallika	Mallika	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	charioteer	charioteer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	alighted	alight	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past · perfect | charioteer | both Mallika |  |  |  | thus *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **alight** | participle |  | charioteer's charioteer *not said here* |  | gifts's chariot |  |  | tree rules |

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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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