--- title: The last three nights I have gone into the King's garden and sung a… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The last three nights I have gone into the King's garden and sung a song, and each night the youngest princess has come to me and asked me who I am, and whence I came, and I have answered nothing. Who acts: last three nights, youngest princess, I. 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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 (last three nights, youngest princess, I), 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:pg7128:23:103 # text = The last three nights I have gone into the King's garden and sung a song, and each night the youngest princess has come to me and asked me who I am, and whence I came, and I have answered nothing. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 nights night NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 8 into into ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 sung sing VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 19 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 20 det _ _ 20 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl:unmarked _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 youngest young ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 23 amod _ _ 23 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 24 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 obl _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 30 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 iobj _ _ 31 who who PRON WP PronType=Int 29 ccomp _ _ 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 33 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 whence whence ADV WRB PronType=Int 38 advmod _ _ 37 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 41 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 42 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 43 answered answer VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 38 parataxis _ _ 44 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | present · perfect | the last three nights | | | the King's garden | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into garden=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | participle | the last three nights *not said here* | a song | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | | 3 | **come** | present · perfect | the youngest princess | | me | | night | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the youngest princess *not said here* | | me | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | | 5 | **is a** | present | I | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **come** | past | I | | | | | whence *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present · perfect | I | nothing | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | 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 102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/23/102/) - next →: [sentence 104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/23/104/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/23/)