--- title: "The laughing of the fish," said the girl, "which seems to have been… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: "The laughing of the fish," said the girl, "which seems to have been the cause of all this trouble, indicates that there is a man in the palace who is plotting against the king's life." Who acts: laughing, man, palace. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/26/57/) [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 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/26/) / 57 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 57 "The laughing of the fish," said the girl, "which seems to have been the cause of all this trouble, indicates that there is a man in the palace who is plotting against the king's life." **Who acts:** laughing, man, palace · **What happens:** say, seem, be, indicate, plot · **To what, where:** cause · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (laughing, man, palace), 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:pg7128:26:57 # text = "The laughing of the fish," said the girl, "which seems to have been the cause of all this trouble, indicates that there is a man in the palace who is plotting against the king's life." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 laughing laughing NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 9 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 seems seem VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 17 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 20 aux _ _ 18 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 20 cop _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 cause cause NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 xcomp _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 24 det:predet _ _ 23 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 24 det _ _ 24 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 indicates indicate VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 27 that that SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 29 expl _ _ 29 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 35 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 37 nsubj _ _ 36 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 plotting plot VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 34 acl:relcl _ _ 38 against against ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 41 's 's PART POS _ 40 case _ _ 42 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the laughing of the fish | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **seem** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | to-infinitive · perfect | | the cause | | | | of all trouble | tree rules | | 4 | **indicate** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot | | 5 | **be** *in a quote* | present | a man in the palace | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **plot** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the palace | | | | | against the king's life | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/26/56/) - next →: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/26/58/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/26/)