--- title: Queen Lona returned to the palace, and when the time for the birth o… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Queen Lona returned to the palace, and when the time for the birth of the promised son drew nigh, she inquired of three Jogis who came begging to her gate, what the child's fate would be, and the youngest of them answered and said, "Oh, Queen! the child will be a boy, and he will live to be a great --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/71/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Indian Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/) / [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/) / 71 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 71 Queen Lona returned to the palace, and when the time for the birth of the promised son drew nigh, she inquired of three Jogis who came begging to her gate, what the child's fate would be, and the youngest of them answered and said, "Oh, Queen! the child will be a boy, and he will live to be a great man. **Who acts:** Queen, time, fate, youngest, child · **What happens:** return, promise, draw, inquire, come, beg · **To what, where:** gate, boy, great man · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Queen, time, fate, youngest), 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:pg7128:20:71 # text = Queen Lona returned to the palace, and when the time for the birth of the promised son drew nigh, she inquired of three Jogis who came begging to her gate, what the child's fate would be, and the youngest of them answered and said, "Oh, Queen! the child will be a boy, and he will live to be a great man. 1 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Lona Lona PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 returned return VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 9 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 19 advmod _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 birth birth NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 promised promise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 amod _ _ 18 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 19 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 20 nigh nigh ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 22 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 inquired inquire VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 obl _ _ 26 Jogis Jogis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod:unmarked _ _ 27 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 29 begging beg VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 xcomp _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 gate gate NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 34 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 40 obj _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 37 's 's PART POS _ 36 case _ _ 38 fate fate NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 39 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 youngest young ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 47 nsubj _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nmod _ _ 47 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 parataxis _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 49 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 47 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 51 " " PUNCT `` _ 54 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 52 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 54 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 54 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 55 ! ! PUNCT . _ 54 punct _ _ 56 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 57 det _ _ 57 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 nsubj _ _ 58 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 61 aux _ _ 59 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 61 cop _ _ 60 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 61 det _ _ 61 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 62 , , PUNCT , _ 66 punct _ _ 63 and and CCONJ CC _ 66 cc _ _ 64 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 66 nsubj _ _ 65 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 66 aux _ _ 66 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 67 to to PART TO _ 71 mark _ _ 68 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 71 cop _ _ 69 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 71 det _ _ 70 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 71 amod _ _ 71 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 66 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 72 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **return** | past | Queen | | | | | to the palace | tree rules | | 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* | participle | | | | | | | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **draw** | past | the time for the birth of the promised son | | | | | nigh *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **inquire** *speech: other* | past | Queen | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **come** | past | | | | | | of three Jogis | tree rules | | 6 | **beg** *speech: request* | gerund | | | | | | to Queen's gate | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **be** | would | the child's fate | Queen's gate | | | | | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | | 8 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the youngest of eyes | | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the youngest of eyes *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **is a** *in a quote* | future | the child | a boy | | | | | tree rules | | 11 | **live** *in a quote* | future | child | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 12 | **is a** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | child *not said here* | a great man | | | | | tree rules | | 13 | **fate** | | the child | | | | | | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=agent | 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 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/70/) - next →: [sentence 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/72/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/)