--- title: When the King returned at evening and asked them why they were so mi… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: When the King returned at evening and asked them why they were so miserable, they said, "Your horse Katar came and tore our clothes, and upset all our things, and we ran away for fear he should kill us." Who acts: King, Queens, horse, we. 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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 (King, Queens, horse, we), 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:pg7128:23:52 # text = When the King returned at evening and asked them why they were so miserable, they said, "Your horse Katar came and tore our clothes, and upset all our things, and we ran away for fear he should kill us." 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 returned return VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 miserable miserable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 22 Katar Katar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 appos _ _ 23 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 ccomp _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 tore tore VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 26 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 upset upset VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 31 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 33 det:predet _ _ 32 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 38 away away ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 39 for for ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 41 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 42 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 43 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 acl:relcl _ _ 44 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **return** | past | the King | | | | evening | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the King *not said here* | | Queens *= queen* | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | | 3 | **is** | past | Queens *= queen* | | | | | miserable *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Queens *= queen* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **come** *in a quote* | past | Your horse | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **tore** *in a quote* | past | Your horse *not said here* | our clothes | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **upset** *in a quote* | infinitive | Your horse *not said here* | our things | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thing=Experiencer | | 8 | **run away** *in a quote* | past | we | | | | | for fear; away *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for fear=Beneficiary | | 9 | **kill** *in a quote* | should | horse | us | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | 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 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/23/51/) - next →: [sentence 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/23/53/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/23/)