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title: One day a young prince was out practising archery with the son of hi… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: One day a young prince was out practising archery with the son of his father's chief vizier, when one of the arrows accidentally struck the wife of a merchant, who was walking about in an upper room of a house close by. Who acts: young prince, one, merchant. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Jos
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 10

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One day a young prince was out practising archery with the son of his father's chief vizier, when one of the arrows accidentally struck the wife of a merchant, who was walking about in an upper room of a house close by.

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**Who acts:** young prince, one, merchant · **What happens:** practise, strike, walk · **To what, where:** archery, wife, upper room

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young prince, one, merchant), 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:pg7128:27:10
# text = One day a young prince was out practising archery with the son of his father's chief vizier, when one of the arrows accidentally struck the wife of a merchant, who was walking about in an upper room of a house close by.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	practising	practise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	archery	archery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	vizier	vizier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nsubj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	accidentally	accidentally	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	acl	_	_
36	about	about	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
44	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
45	by	by	ADP	IN	_	44	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **practise** | past · progressive | a young prince | archery |  |  | day | with the son of Prince's father's chief vizier | tree rules |
| 2 | **strike** | past | one of the arrows | the wife of a merchant |  |  |  | accidentally *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent wife=Instrument |
| 3 | **walk** | past · progressive | a merchant |  |  | a upper room of a house |  | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in room=Trajectory |

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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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