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title: When the King came home, he was furious at hearing his youngest wife… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When the King came home, he was furious at hearing his youngest wife, the gardener's daughter, had given him a stone instead of the beautiful little son she had promised him. Who acts: King, wife. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, with its de
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 99

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When the King came home, he was furious at hearing his youngest wife, the gardener's daughter, had given him a stone instead of the beautiful little son she had promised him.

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**Who acts:** King, wife · **What happens:** come, be, hear, give, promise · **To what, where:** youngest wife, stone, King, beautiful little son

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, wife), 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:pg7128:22:99
# text = When the King came home, he was furious at hearing his youngest wife, the gardener's daughter, had given him a stone instead of the beautiful little son she had promised him.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	home	home	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	furious	furious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
14	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	gardener	gardener	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	iobj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	31	case	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	fixed	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
32	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	promised	promise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	acl:relcl	_	_
35	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the King |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | King |  |  |  |  | furious *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hear** | gerund | King *not said here* | King's youngest wife and the gardener's daughter |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus |
| 4 | **give** | past · perfect | King *not said here* | a stone | King |  |  | instead the beautiful little son | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient stone=Theme |
| 5 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past · perfect | wife | the beautiful little son *not said here* | King |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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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