--- title: Then he took out two sweetmeats and handed them to the King, and sai… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then he took out two sweetmeats and handed them to the King, and said, "King! take these two sweetmeats and give them to your wives; give them to the wives you love best." Who acts: Fakir, you. 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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 (Fakir, you), 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:pg7128:25:26 # text = Then he took out two sweetmeats and handed them to the King, and said, "King! take these two sweetmeats and give them to your wives; give them to the wives you love best." 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 out out ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 sweetmeats sweetmeat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 handed hand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 King king NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ! ! PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ 20 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 ccomp _ _ 21 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 23 det _ _ 22 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 sweetmeats sweetmeat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 26 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 iobj _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 wives wife NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 31 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 32 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 iobj _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 wives wife NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 36 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl:relcl _ _ 38 best well ADV RBS Degree=Sup 37 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take out** | past | Fakir | two sweetmeats | | | then | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweetmeat=Theme | | 2 | **hand** | past | Fakir *not said here* | sweetmeats *= sweetmeat* | the King | | | | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to king=Destination | | 3 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Fakir *not said here* | King | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive | | this two sweetmeats | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweetmeat=Theme | | 5 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | sweetmeats *= sweetmeat* | | | to your wives | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to wife=Recipient | | 6 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive | Fakir *not said here* | | sweetmeats *= sweetmeat* | | | to the wives | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to wife=Recipient | | 7 | **love** *in a quote* | present | you | the wives *not said here* | | | | well *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=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 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/25/25/) - next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/25/27/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/25/)