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title: Then taking with him these spoils of the chase, the Prince came to t… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then taking with him these spoils of the chase, the Prince came to the pool settled on as a meeting-place. Who acts: these, Prince. 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 88

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Then taking with him these spoils of the chase, the Prince came to the pool settled on as a meeting-place.

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**Who acts:** these, Prince · **What happens:** take, spoil, come, settle on

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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 (these, Prince), 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:pg7128:25:88
# text = Then taking with him these spoils of the chase, the Prince came to the pool settled on as a meeting-place.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
6	spoils	spoil	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	chase	chase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
17	settled	settle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | gerund |  |  |  |  | then | with prince | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **spoil** | present | these |  |  |  |  | of the chase | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **come** | past | the Prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **settle on** | past | the Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the pool; as a meeting place | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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