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title: They were to bathe her, dress her in beautiful clothes and handsome… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They were to bathe her, dress her in beautiful clothes and handsome jewels, and then bring her to him in the palanquin. Who acts: daughters. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 116

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They were to bathe her, dress her in beautiful clothes and handsome jewels, and then bring her to him in the palanquin.

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**Who acts:** daughters · **What happens:** bathe, dress, bring · **To what, where:** gardener, beautiful clothes, prince, palanquin

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughters), 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:pg7128:24:116
# text = They were to bathe her, dress her in beautiful clothes and handsome jewels, and then bring her to him in the palanquin.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	bathe	bathe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	dress	dress	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	7	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
18	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	palanquin	palanquin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bathe** | past | daughters *= daughter* |  | gardener |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Destination |
| 2 | **dress** | infinitive | daughters *= daughter* *not said here* | gardener |  | beautiful clothes and handsome jewels |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 3 | **bring** | infinitive | daughters *= daughter* *not said here* | gardener | prince | the palanquin | then |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to he=Destination |

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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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