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title: The prince made preparations for a fire, and arranged the few articl… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The prince made preparations for a fire, and arranged the few articles of bedding that they had with them, while the vizier's son went to the baniya and the baker and the butcher to get something for their dinner. Who acts: prince, articles, son. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, 
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 59

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The prince made preparations for a fire, and arranged the few articles of bedding that they had with them, while the vizier's son went to the baniya and the baker and the butcher to get something for their dinner.

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**Who acts:** prince, articles, son · **What happens:** make, arrange, have, go, get, article · **To what, where:** preparations, few articles, baniya, something, bedding

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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 (prince, articles, 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:pg7128:27:59
# text = The prince made preparations for a fire, and arranged the few articles of bedding that they had with them, while the vizier's son went to the baniya and the baker and the butcher to get something for their dinner.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	preparations	preparation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	arranged	arrange	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	articles	article	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	bedding	bedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	vizier	vizier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	baniya	baniya	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	baker	baker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	butcher	butcher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
39	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	38	obj	_	_
40	for	for	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the prince | preparations |  |  |  | for a fire | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent preparation=Product for fire=Asset |
| 2 | **arrange** | past | the prince *not said here* | the few articles of bedding |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent article=Product |
| 3 | **have** | past | articles *= article* |  |  |  |  | with preparations *= preparation* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **go** | past | the vizier's son |  |  | the baniya and the baker and the butcher |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to baniya=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **get** | to-infinitive | the vizier's son *not said here* | something |  |  |  | for preparations's dinner | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent something=Theme for dinner=Source |
| 6 | **article** |  |  | bedding |  |  |  |  | nom article «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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