--- title: "Thank you, I will!" replied the simple farmer; so he prepared three… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: "Thank you, I will!" replied the simple farmer; so he prepared three girdle-cakes to last him on the journey, and set out to find Ram. Who acts: simple farmer, friend. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (simple farmer, friend), 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:pg7128:22:18 # text = "Thank you, I will!" replied the simple farmer; so he prepared three girdle-cakes to last him on the journey, and set out to find Ram. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Thank thank VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 9 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 simple simple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 farmer farmer NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 prepared prepare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 17 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 18 girdle girdle NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 cakes cake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 last last VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 23 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 30 out out ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 advcl _ _ 33 Ram Ram PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* *in a quote* | present | | | you | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 2 | **reply** *speech: express* | past | the simple farmer | | | | | | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **prepare** | past | friend | three girdle cakes | | | | | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent cake=Theme clause=Attribute | | 4 | **last** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | friend *not said here* | friend | | the journey | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme he=Value | | 5 | **set out** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **find** | to-infinitive | | Ram | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ram=Topic | 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 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/22/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/22/19/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/22/)