--- title: Nearly all the day long these six princes wandered about looking in… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Nearly all the day long these six princes wandered about looking in vain for game; till at last they grew hungry and thirsty, and could find no water, and they had no food with them. Who acts: six princes, brothers. 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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 (six princes, brothers), 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:pg7128:24:17 # text = Nearly all the day long these six princes wandered about looking in vain for game; till at last they grew hungry and thirsty, and could find no water, and they had no food with them. 1 Nearly nearly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 4 det:predet _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 5 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 9 advmod _ _ 6 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 8 det _ _ 7 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 princes prince NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 wandered wander VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 about about SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 11 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 vain vain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 obl _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 17 till till SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 18 at at ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 obl _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 22 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 xcomp _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 thirsty thirsty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 29 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 30 det _ _ 30 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 35 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 36 det _ _ 36 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wander** | past | this six princes | | | | | long *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **look** | gerund | this six princes *not said here* | | | vain | | for game | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent in vain=Location for game=Theme | | 3 | **grow** | past | brothers *= brother* | | | last | | hungry *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location | | 4 | **find** | could | this six princes *not said here* | no water | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Topic | | 5 | **have** | past | brothers *= brother* | no food | | | | with quantities *= quantity* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient | 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 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/24/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/24/18/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/24/)