--- title: Presently the merchant went to ask his wife about something, and fou… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Presently the merchant went to ask his wife about something, and found her lying, to all appearance, dead in the middle of the room, and an arrow fixed in the ground within half a yard of her head. Who acts: merchant, wife. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant, wife), 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:pg7128:27:13 # text = Presently the merchant went to ask his wife about something, and found her lying, to all appearance, dead in the middle of the room, and an arrow fixed in the ground within half a yard of her head. 1 Presently presently ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 merchant merchant NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 about about ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 14 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 lying lie VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 19 det _ _ 19 appearance appearance NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 arrow arrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 32 fixed fix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 acl _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 within within ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 39 det:predet _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 yard yard NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | the merchant | | | | | presently *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | the merchant *not said here* | | merchant's wife | | | about something | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient about something=Topic | | 3 | **find** | past | the merchant *not said here* | wife | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent she=Attribute clause=Theme | | 4 | **lie** | gerund | wife *not said here* | | | | | to all appearance and a arrow | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **fix** | participle | | a arrow *not said here* | | the ground | | within half yard of wife's head | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | 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 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/27/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/27/14/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/27/)