--- title: Every one laughed at her and said, "How can the King's daughter thin… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Every one laughed at her and said, "How can the King's daughter think of marrying this poor, common man!" and the Kings and the Rajas, who had come as suitors, all wanted to turn him out of the garden. Who acts: one, daughter think, Rajas. 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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 (one, daughter think, Rajas), 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:pg7128:23:130 # text = Every one laughed at her and said, "How can the King's daughter think of marrying this poor, common man!" and the Kings and the Rajas, who had come as suitors, all wanted to turn him out of the garden. 1 Every every DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 11 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 14 's 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 think think NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 ccomp _ _ 17 of of SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 18 marrying marry VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 acl _ _ 19 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 23 det _ _ 20 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 22 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ! ! PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 Kings King PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 7 ccomp _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 Rajas Rajas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 34 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 31 acl _ _ 36 as as ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 suitors suitor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 40 advmod _ _ 40 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 42 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 xcomp _ _ 43 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 obj _ _ 44 out out ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **laugh** | past | every one | | | | | at daughter | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | every one *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **marry** *in a quote* | gerund | daughter think *not said here* | this poor common man | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient | | 4 | **come** | past · perfect | the Rajas | | | | | as suitors | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **want** | past | the Rajas | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **turn** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Rajas *not said here* | Rajas | | the garden | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme out garden=Trajectory | 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 129](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/23/129/) - next →: [sentence 131](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/23/131/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/23/)