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title: The King's sons are sitting in the cellar eating their food; you go… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The King's sons are sitting in the cellar eating their food; you go and fetch a grain from there; why should you take mine from me?" Who acts: sons, cellar, you. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 40

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The King's sons are sitting in the cellar eating their food; you go and fetch a grain from there; why should you take mine from me?"

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**Who acts:** sons, cellar, you · **What happens:** sit, eat, go, fetch, take · **To what, where:** cellar, food, grain, mine

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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 (sons, cellar, you), 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:pg7128:25:40
# text = The King's sons are sitting in the cellar eating their food; you go and fetch a grain from there; why should you take mine from me?"
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cellar	cellar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	fetch	fetch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
24	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
27	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | present · progressive | the King's sons |  |  | the cellar |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cellar=Location |
| 2 | **eat** | gerund | the cellar *not said here* | children's food |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient |
| 3 | **go** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **fetch** | present | you *not said here* | a grain |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent grain=Theme from there=Source |
| 5 | **take** | should | you | mine |  |  |  | from me | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent my=Theme from i=Initial\_Location |

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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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