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title: The King gave his daughter and the young prince a great many horses,… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The King gave his daughter and the young prince a great many horses, and elephants, and all sorts of presents, and also a great many sepoys to guard them. Who acts: King. 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 92

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The King gave his daughter and the young prince a great many horses, and elephants, and all sorts of presents, and also a great many sepoys to guard them.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** give, guard, sort · **To what, where:** great many horses, daughter, horses, presents

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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 (King), 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:pg7128:24:92
# text = The King gave his daughter and the young prince a great many horses, and elephants, and all sorts of presents, and also a great many sepoys to guard them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	presents	present	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	also	also	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	sepoys	sepoy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	guard	guard	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | the King | a great many horses and elephants | King's daughter and the young prince |  |  | all sorts of presents *obl*; a great many sepoys *obl* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient horse=Theme |
| 2 | **guard** | to-infinitive | the King *not said here* | horses *= horse* |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **sort** |  |  | presents |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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