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title: Some time passed, and one day the Fakir appeared, and said, "King! b… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Some time passed, and one day the Fakir appeared, and said, "King! bring me that son of yours!" Who acts: time, Fakir. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 33

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Some time passed, and one day the Fakir appeared, and said, "King! bring me that son of yours!"

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**Who acts:** time, Fakir · **What happens:** pass, appear, say, bring · **To what, where:** King, Fakir · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (time, Fakir), 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:pg7128:25:33
# text = Some time passed, and one day the Fakir appeared, and said, "King! bring me that son of yours!"
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Fakir	Fakir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	King	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
18	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | participle | some time |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **appear** | past | the Fakir |  |  |  | day |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the Fakir *not said here* | King |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **bring** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  | the Fakir *= fakir* |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination |

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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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