--- title: Now the grain merchant lived near the King's palace, and one night a… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Now the grain merchant lived near the King's palace, and one night at twelve o'clock the boy was very hot; so he went out into the King's cool garden, and began to sing a lovely song. Who acts: grain merchant, one night, merchant. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matte --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/23/91/) [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/) / 91 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 91 Now the grain merchant lived near the King's palace, and one night at twelve o'clock the boy was very hot; so he went out into the King's cool garden, and began to sing a lovely song. **Who acts:** grain merchant, one night, merchant · **What happens:** live, be, go out, begin, sing · **To what, where:** palace, cool garden, lovely song 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 (grain merchant, one night, merchant), 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:pg7128:23:91 # text = Now the grain merchant lived near the King's palace, and one night at twelve o'clock the boy was very hot; so he went out into the King's cool garden, and began to sing a lovely song. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 grain grain NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 merchant merchant NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 near near ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 13 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 o'clock o'clock NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 very very ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 27 out out ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 into into ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 31 's 's PART POS _ 30 case _ _ 32 cool cool ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 sing sing VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 lovely lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | past | the grain merchant | | | the King's palace | now | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near palace=Location | | 2 | **is** | past | one night at twelve o'clock | | | | | hot *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **go out** | past | merchant | | | the King's cool garden | | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **begin** | past | the grain merchant *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **sing** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | the grain merchant *not said here* | a lovely song | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=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 90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/23/90/) - next →: [sentence 92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/23/92/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/23/)