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title: By chance (for they both had been excused from obeying this order) t… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: By chance (for they both had been excused from obeying this order) the king's son and the vizier's son were also in the company, and passed by in the crowd. Who acts: chance son. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, with its dependency tree and 
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 26

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By chance (for they both had been excused from obeying this order) the king's son and the vizier's son were also in the company, and passed by in the crowd.

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**Who acts:** chance son · **What happens:** excuse, obey, be, pass · **To what, where:** City, order, company

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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 (chance son), 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:pg7128:27:26
# text = By chance (for they both had been excused from obeying this order) the king's son and the vizier's son were also in the company, and passed by in the crowd.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
6	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	excused	excuse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
10	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	obeying	obey	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	vizier	vizier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
25	also	also	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
32	by	by	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **excuse** | past · perfect · passive |  | City |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **obey** | gerund |  | this order |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | the king's chance son and the vizier's son |  |  | the company |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **pass** | participle |  | the company *not said here* |  |  |  | by the crowd | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by crowd=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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