--- title: So the King killed his Queens, and then he and his wife, the gardene… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: So the King killed his Queens, and then he and his wife, the gardener's daughter, and the prince and his wife, all went to live in the King's palace, and lived there happily together for ever after; and the King thanked God for giving him such a beautiful son, and for ridding him of his four wicked --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/25/10/) [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 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/25/) / 10 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 10 So the King killed his Queens, and then he and his wife, the gardener's daughter, and the prince and his wife, all went to live in the King's palace, and lived there happily together for ever after; and the King thanked God for giving him such a beautiful son, and for ridding him of his four wicked wives. **Who acts:** King · **What happens:** kill, go, live, thank, give, rid · **To what, where:** Queens, palace, God, beautiful son This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19. 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. **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:pg7128:25:10 # text = So the King killed his Queens, and then he and his wife, the gardener's daughter, and the prince and his wife, all went to live in the King's palace, and lived there happily together for ever after; and the King thanked God for giving him such a beautiful son, and for ridding him of his four wicked wives. 1 So so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 killed kill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 Queens queen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 9 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 10 advmod _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 gardener gardener NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 17 's 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 27 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 28 advmod _ _ 28 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 34 's 's PART POS _ 33 case _ _ 35 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 39 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 38 advmod _ _ 40 happily happily ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 41 together together ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 42 for for ADP IN _ 38 obl _ _ 43 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 44 advmod _ _ 44 after after ADP IN _ 42 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ; ; PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 nsubj _ _ 49 thanked thank VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 50 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 obj _ _ 51 for for SCONJ IN _ 52 mark _ _ 52 giving give VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 49 advcl _ _ 53 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 52 iobj _ _ 54 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 57 det:predet _ _ 55 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 57 det _ _ 56 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 57 amod _ _ 57 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 58 , , PUNCT , _ 61 punct _ _ 59 and and CCONJ CC _ 61 cc _ _ 60 for for SCONJ IN _ 61 mark _ _ 61 ridding rid VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 62 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 61 obj _ _ 63 of of ADP IN _ 67 case _ _ 64 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 67 nmod:poss _ _ 65 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 67 nummod _ _ 66 wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 67 amod _ _ 67 wives wife NOUN NNS Number=Plur 61 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 68 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **kill** | past | the King | King's Queens | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Theme | | 2 | **go** | past | King | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **live** | to-infinitive | King *not said here* | | | the King's palace | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location | | 4 | **live** | past | the King *not said here* | | | there | | happily, together *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past | the King | | God | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Theme | | 6 | **give** | gerund | the King *not said here* | such beautiful son | God | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient son=Theme | | 7 | **rid** | gerund | the King *not said here* | God | | | | of King's four wicked wives | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Source of wife=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 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/25/9/) - next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/25/11/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/25/)