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title: But the King of that city became very sad in his heart, because when… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But the King of that city became very sad in his heart, because when so many chiefs and nobles were sitting there his daughter had chosen none of them, but had chosen that Fakir; but he kept these thoughts concealed in his heart. Who acts: King, many chiefs, daughter, thoughts. A sentence of «Indian
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 82

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But the King of that city became very sad in his heart, because when so many chiefs and nobles were sitting there his daughter had chosen none of them, but had chosen that Fakir; but he kept these thoughts concealed in his heart.

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**Who acts:** King, many chiefs, daughter, thoughts · **What happens:** become, sit, choose, keep, conceal · **To what, where:** none, Fakir, heart

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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 (King, many chiefs, daughter, thoughts), 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:pg7128:25:82
# text = But the King of that city became very sad in his heart, because when so many chiefs and nobles were sitting there his daughter had chosen none of them, but had chosen that Fakir; but he kept these thoughts concealed in his heart.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
14	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
15	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	22	mark	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	nobles	noble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
23	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	parataxis	_	_
28	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	27	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	parataxis	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
36	Fakir	Fakir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
38	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
41	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	42	det	_	_
42	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nsubj	_	_
43	concealed	conceal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	ccomp	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | the King of that city |  |  |  |  | sad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sit** | past · progressive | many chiefs and nobles |  |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **choose** | past · perfect | King's daughter | none |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Theme |
| 4 | **choose** | past · perfect |  | Fakir |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **keep** | past | King |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **conceal** | past | this thoughts |  |  | King's heart |  |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in heart=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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