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title: When they were all at dinner, the prince again made the gardener's d… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When they were all at dinner, the prince again made the gardener's daughter a great many salaams, and gave her food from all the nicest dishes. Who acts: salaams, dinner. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 122

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When they were all at dinner, the prince again made the gardener's daughter a great many salaams, and gave her food from all the nicest dishes.

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**Who acts:** salaams, dinner · **What happens:** be, make, give · **To what, where:** dinner, great many salaams, daughter, food, gardener, nicest dishes

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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 (salaams, dinner), 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:pg7128:24:122
# text = When they were all at dinner, the prince again made the gardener's daughter a great many salaams, and gave her food from all the nicest dishes.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
10	again	again	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	gardener	gardener	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	salaams	salaam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	iobj	_	_
24	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	29	det:predet	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	nicest	nice	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	29	amod	_	_
29	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | salaams *= salaam* |  |  | dinner |  | all *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | past | dinner | a great many salaams | the gardener's daughter |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset daughter=Beneficiary salaam=Product |
| 3 | **give** | past | dinner *not said here* | food | gardener | all nicest dishes |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient food=Theme |

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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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