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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 100

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The next day, when he had finished his work, the young prince went to the jungle to see his horse, who asked him, "Are you quite well and happy?" "

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**Who acts:** boy, next day, horse · **What happens:** finish, go, see, ask, be, work · **To what, where:** work, jungle, horse, boy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, next day, horse), 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:pg7128:23:100
# text = The next day, when he had finished his work, the young prince went to the jungle to see his horse, who asked him, "Are you quite well and happy?" "
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	acl:relcl	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	jungle	jungle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	_
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **finish** | past · perfect | boy | boy's work and the young prince |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector work=Eventuality |
| 2 | **go** | past | the next day |  |  | the jungle |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to jungle=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | the next day *not said here* | boy's horse |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | boy's horse |  | boy |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | boy |  |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** *in a quote* |  | boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **work** |  | boy |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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