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title: So there the child lived, playing with his colt, and talking to his… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So there the child lived, playing with his colt, and talking to his parrot, while the nurses taught him all things needful for a King's son to know. Who acts: child, nurses. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 78

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So there the child lived, playing with his colt, and talking to his parrot, while the nurses taught him all things needful for a King's son to know.

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**Who acts:** child, nurses · **What happens:** live, play, talk, teach, know · **To what, where:** child

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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 (child, nurses), 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:pg7128:20:78
# text = So there the child lived, playing with his colt, and talking to his parrot, while the nurses taught him all things needful for a King's son to know.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	colt	colt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	parrot	parrot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	nurses	nurse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	taught	teach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	needful	needful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	ccomp	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | the child |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **play** | gerund | the child *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with child's colt | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with colt=Theme |
| 3 | **talk** | gerund | the child *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to child's parrot | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to parrot=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | the nurses |  | child |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 5 | **know** | to-infinitive | the nurses *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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