--- title: Your four wicked Queens told you the gardener's daughter had given y… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Your four wicked Queens told you the gardener's daughter had given you a stone and not a son; but it was they who put the stone in my little bed, and then they tried to kill me." Who acts: four wicked Queens, daughter, country, sons. 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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 Queens, daughter, country, sons), 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:pg7128:24:136 # text = Your four wicked Queens told you the gardener's daughter had given you a stone and not a son; but it was they who put the stone in my little bed, and then they tried to kill me." 1 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 2 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 3 wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 Queens queen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 iobj _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 gardener gardener NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 ccomp _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 iobj _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 26 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 31 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 37 advmod _ _ 36 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 tried try VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 xcomp _ _ 40 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Your four wicked Queens | | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **give** | past · perfect | the gardener's daughter | a stone and a son | you | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient stone=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | past | country | sons *= son* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **put** | past | sons *= son* | the stone | | my little bed | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stone=Theme in bed=Destination | | 5 | **try** | past | sons *= son* | | | | then | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **kill** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | sons *= son* *not said here* | me | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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 135](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/24/135/) - next →: [sentence 137](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/24/137/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/24/)