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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 140

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Their six husbands used to go out hunting every day, and every evening they brought home quantities of all kinds of game to their wives, and the game was cooked for their dinner and for the King's; but the husband of the youngest princess always stayed at home in the palace, and never went out hunting at all.

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**Who acts:** six husbands, sisters, husband · **What happens:** use, go out, hunt, bring, cook, stay · **To what, where:** quantities, wives, game, home, all

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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 (six husbands, sisters, husband), 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:pg7128:23:140
# text = Their six husbands used to go out hunting every day, and every evening they brought home quantities of all kinds of game to their wives, and the game was cooked for their dinner and for the King's; but the husband of the youngest princess always stayed at home in the palace, and never went out hunting at all.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	husbands	husband	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	out	out	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	home	home	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	quantities	quantity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	wives	wife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	cooked	cook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	's	's	PART	POS	_	39	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	50	punct	_	_
42	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	48	amod	_	_
48	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	_
49	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	50	advmod	_	_
50	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
51	at	at	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
53	in	in	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
58	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	59	advmod	_	_
59	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	conj	_	_
60	out	out	ADP	RP	_	59	compound:prt	_	_
61	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	59	xcomp	_	_
62	at	at	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
63	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	61	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past | sisters's six husbands |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **go out** | to-infinitive | sisters's six husbands *not said here* |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hunt** | gerund | sisters's six husbands *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **bring** | past | sisters *= sister* | quantities of all kinds of game | sisters's wives |  | evening | home *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent quantity=Theme to wife=Destination |
| 5 | **cook** | past · passive |  | the game |  |  |  | for sisters's dinner | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for dinner=Beneficiary |
| 6 | **stay** | past | the husband of the youngest princess |  |  | home |  | in the palace; always *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location |
| 7 | **not** **go out** | past | the husband of the youngest princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **hunt** | gerund | the husband of the youngest princess *not said here* |  |  | all |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent at all=Location |

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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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