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title: The four wicked wives looked on and were very much surprised and ver… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The four wicked wives looked on and were very much surprised and very angry. Who acts: four wicked wives. 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 120

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The four wicked wives looked on and were very much surprised and very angry.

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**Who acts:** four wicked wives · **What happens:** look on, be

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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 (four wicked wives), 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:pg7128:24:120
# text = The four wicked wives looked on and were very much surprised and very angry.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	wives	wife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	much	much	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	surprised	surprised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look on** | past | the four wicked wives |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past | the four wicked wives *not said here* |  |  |  |  | surprised *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | the four wicked wives *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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