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title: The King could not shoot any of his sepoys for letting his horse esc… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The King could not shoot any of his sepoys for letting his horse escape, for he himself had let him do so. Who acts: King, horse. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 67

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The King could not shoot any of his sepoys for letting his horse escape, for he himself had let him do so.

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**Who acts:** King, horse · **What happens:** not shoot, let, do, escape · **To what, where:** any, horse escape, horse

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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 (King, horse), 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:pg7128:23:67
# text = The King could not shoot any of his sepoys for letting his horse escape, for he himself had let him do so.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	shoot	shoot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	sepoys	sepoy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	letting	let	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	escape	escape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	17	nmod:unmarked	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **shoot** | could | the King | any |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Theme |
| 2 | **let** | gerund | the King *not said here* | King's horse escape |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent escape=Theme |
| 3 | **let** | past | King | horse |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | infinitive | horse *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **escape** |  | King |  |  |  |  |  | nom escape «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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