--- title: The prince always did what his horse told him to do; so he went to h… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The prince always did what his horse told him to do; so he went to his wife and said to her, "I wish very much to go to my own country to see my father and mother." " Who acts: prince, horse. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, with its depende --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/24/89/) [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/) / 89 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 89 The prince always did what his horse told him to do; so he went to his wife and said to her, "I wish very much to go to my own country to see my father and mother." " **Who acts:** prince, horse · **What happens:** do, tell, go, say, wish, see · **To what, where:** prince, wife, own country, father · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (prince, horse), 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:pg7128:24:89 # text = The prince always did what his horse told him to do; so he went to his wife and said to her, "I wish very much to go to my own country to see my father and mother." " 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 4 advmod _ _ 4 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 8 obj _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 9 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 iobj _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 wish wish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 ccomp _ _ 27 very very ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 much much ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 26 ccomp _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 33 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 advcl _ _ 37 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | the prince | | | | | always *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | prince's horse | | prince | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | prince's horse *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **go** | past | prince | | | | | to prince's wife | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to wife=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | prince *not said here* | | wife | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **wish** *in a quote* | present | prince | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 7 | **go** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | my own country | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to country=Initial\_Location | | 8 | **see** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | my father and mother | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer father=Stimulus | 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 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/24/88/) - next →: [sentence 90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/24/90/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/24/)