--- title: On this the King's son said, "I will leave my beasts here, my simurg… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: On this the King's son said, "I will leave my beasts here, my simurgs, tigers, and dogs, and horses; they will all stay here while I go to the city to see the sights. Who acts: I, beasts. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, with its dependency --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/25/63/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Indian Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/) / [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/25/) / 63 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 63 On this the King's son said, "I will leave my beasts here, my simurgs, tigers, and dogs, and horses; they will all stay here while I go to the city to see the sights. **Who acts:** I, beasts · **What happens:** say, leave, stay, go, see · **To what, where:** horses, beasts, city, sights · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (I, beasts), 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:pg7128:25:63 # text = On this the King's son said, "I will leave my beasts here, my simurgs, tigers, and dogs, and horses; they will all stay here while I go to the city to see the sights. 1 On on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 2 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 6 det _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ _ 13 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 beasts beast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 12 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 simurgs simurg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 tigers tiger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 29 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 all all ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 32 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 31 advmod _ _ 33 while while SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 34 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 36 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 advcl _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 sights sight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | horses | | | | on the King's son | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **leave** *in a quote* | future | I | my beasts | | here | | my simurgs and tigers and dogs *obl* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Theme | | 3 | **stay** *in a quote* | future | beasts *= beast* | | | here | | all *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **go** *in a quote* | present | I | | | the city | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to city=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **see** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the sights | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=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 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/25/62/) - next →: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/25/64/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/25/)