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title: When they had all arrived, the little princess's father said to them… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When they had all arrived, the little princess's father said to them, "To-morrow morning you must all sit together in my garden" (the King's garden was very large), "for then my youngest daughter will come and see you all, and choose her husband. Who acts: Rajas, father, garden, youngest daughter. A
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 118

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When they had all arrived, the little princess's father said to them, "To-morrow morning you must all sit together in my garden" (the King's garden was very large), "for then my youngest daughter will come and see you all, and choose her husband.

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**Who acts:** Rajas, father, garden, youngest daughter, you · **What happens:** arrive, say, sit, be, come, see · **To what, where:** Rajas, garden, you, husband · **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 (Rajas, father, garden, youngest daughter), 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:pg7128:23:118
# text = When they had all arrived, the little princess's father said to them, "To-morrow morning you must all sit together in my garden" (the King's garden was very large), "for then my youngest daughter will come and see you all, and choose her husband.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	To	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	all	all	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	parataxis	_	_
25	together	together	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
30	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	's	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
34	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
36	very	very	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
40	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	for	for	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	47	obl	_	_
43	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
44	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	45	amod	_	_
45	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
46	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
47	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	conj	_	_
50	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	49	obj	_	_
51	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	50	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
55	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
56	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past · perfect | Rajas *= raja* |  |  |  |  | all *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the little princess's father |  | Rajas *= raja* |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **sit** *in a quote* | must | Rajas *= raja* |  |  | my garden | morning | all, together *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | the King's garden |  |  |  |  | large *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** *in a quote* | future | my youngest daughter |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | my youngest daughter *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
| 7 | **choose** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | princess's husband |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=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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