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title: King Sarkap my coming will rue, His head in four pieces I'll hew; Th… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: King Sarkap my coming will rue, His head in four pieces I'll hew; Then forth as a bridegroom I'll ride, With you, little maid, as my bride!" Who acts: King, I. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 24

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King Sarkap my coming will rue, His head in four pieces I'll hew; Then forth as a bridegroom I'll ride, With you, little maid, as my bride!"

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**Who acts:** King, I · **What happens:** come, rue, hew, ride · **To what, where:** head, four pieces, little maid

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, I), 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:pg7128:21:24
# text = King Sarkap my coming will rue, His head in four pieces I'll hew; Then forth as a bridegroom I'll ride, With you, little maid, as my bride!"
1	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Sarkap	Sarkap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	rue	rue	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	hew	hew	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
17	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
18	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	With	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | gerund | King |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **rue** | future |  | king's head |  | four pieces |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Stimulus |
| 3 | **hew** | future | I | four pieces *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient |
| 4 | **ride** | future | I | little maid |  |  |  | as a bridegroom; with you; as my bride; forth *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |

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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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