--- title: And so the princess and the boy were married with great pomp and spl… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And so the princess and the boy were married with great pomp and splendour: her father and mother were quite content with her choice; and the Kings, the Rajas and their sons, all returned to their homes. Who acts: father, all. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Ha --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/23/138/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Indian Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/) / [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/23/) / 138 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 138 And so the princess and the boy were married with great pomp and splendour: her father and mother were quite content with her choice; and the Kings, the Rajas and their sons, all returned to their homes. **Who acts:** father, all · **What happens:** marry, be, return · **To what, where:** princess, quite content, Kings, homes 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 (father, all), 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:pg7128:23:138 # text = And so the princess and the boy were married with great pomp and splendour: her father and mother were quite content with her choice; and the Kings, the Rajas and their sons, all returned to their homes. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 2 so so ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 8 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 married marry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 pomp pomp NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 splendour splendour NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 16 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 20 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 quite quite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 content content NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 acl:relcl _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 choice choice NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 Kings King PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 Rajas raja NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 sons son NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 38 nsubj _ _ 38 returned return VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 homes home NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **marry** | past · passive | | the princess and the boy | | | | with great pomp and splendour | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **is a** | past | princess's father and mother | quite content | | | | with princess's choice | tree rules | | 3 | **return** | past | all | the Kings the Rajas and Rajas's sons *not said here* | | Rajas's homes | | | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent king=Theme to home=Destination | 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 137](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/23/137/) - next →: [sentence 139](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/23/139/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/23/)