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title: On hearing this the Fakir said, "King! these are not your sons; go a… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: On hearing this the Fakir said, "King! these are not your sons; go and bring those children who are eating their food in the cellar." Who acts: Fakir, these, children. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 42

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On hearing this the Fakir said, "King! these are not your sons; go and bring those children who are eating their food in the cellar."

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**Who acts:** Fakir, these, children · **What happens:** hear, say, not be, go, bring, eat · **To what, where:** this, King, sons, children, food, cellar · **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 (Fakir, these, children), 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:pg7128:25:42
# text = On hearing this the Fakir said, "King! these are not your sons; go and bring those children who are eating their food in the cellar."
1	On	on	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	obj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Fakir	Fakir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	King	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
11	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	15	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
17	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
20	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	cellar	cellar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | gerund | the Fakir *not said here* | this |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the Fakir | King |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | these | your sons |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **bring** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  | that children |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument child=Destination |
| 6 | **eat** *in a quote* | present · progressive | that children | children's food |  | the cellar |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient |

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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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