--- title: Meanwhile the beautiful young prince had sat down under a tree, to d… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Meanwhile the beautiful young prince had sat down under a tree, to dine and rest, and there his six brothers-in-law found him. Who acts: six brothers. 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 clau --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/24/18/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Indian Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/) / [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/24/) / 18 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 18 Meanwhile the beautiful young prince had sat down under a tree, to dine and rest, and there his six brothers-in-law found him. **Who acts:** six brothers · **What happens:** sit down, dine, rest, find · **To what, where:** beautiful young prince, tree, prince 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 (six 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:pg7128:24:18 # text = Meanwhile the beautiful young prince had sat down under a tree, to dine and rest, and there his six brothers-in-law found him. 1 Meanwhile meanwhile ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 sat sit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 down down ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 under under ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 dine dine VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 rest rest VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 19 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 27 expl _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ SpaceAfter=No 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 28 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit down** | past · perfect · passive | | the beautiful young prince | | a tree | | meanwhile *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **dine** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **rest** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **find** | past | prince's six brothers | prince | | there | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | 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 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/24/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/24/19/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/24/)