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title: What did the King do but bring two slave-girls' sons and present the… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the King do but bring two slave-girls' sons and present them to the 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 34

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What did the King do but bring two slave-girls' sons and present them to the Fakir.

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**What happens:** do, bring, present · **To what, where:** King do, sons, girls, Fakir

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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: 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:pg7128:25:34
# text = What did the King do but bring two slave-girls' sons and present them to the Fakir.
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	do	do	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
9	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	present	present	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Fakir	Fakir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the King do |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent do=Eventuality |
| 2 | **bring** | infinitive |  |  | two slave girls's sons |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument son=Destination |
| 3 | **present** | infinitive |  | girls *= girl* | the Fakir |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to fakir=Recipient |

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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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