--- title: When the vizier's son returned, and found the fire lighted, the hors… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: When the vizier's son returned, and found the fire lighted, the horses securely fastened, and the bags of muhrs lying altogether in a heap, but no prince, he did not know what to think. Who acts: son, horses, muhrs, bags. 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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 (son, horses, muhrs, bags), 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:pg7128:27:70 # text = When the vizier's son returned, and found the fire lighted, the horses securely fastened, and the bags of muhrs lying altogether in a heap, but no prince, he did not know what to think. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 vizier vizier NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 returned return VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 lighted light VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 16 securely securely ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 fastened fasten VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 bags bag NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 muhrs muhr NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 24 lying lie VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 acl _ _ 25 altogether altogether ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 heap heap NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 30 but but CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 31 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 32 det _ _ 32 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 35 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 36 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 37 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 38 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 40 obj _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **return** | past | the vizier's son | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **find** | past | | the fire | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Topic | | 3 | **light** | participle | | the fire *not said here* | | | | | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **fasten** | past | the horses | | | | | securely *property* | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **lie** | gerund | muhrs *not said here* | | | a heap | | altogether *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in heap=Location | | 6 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | the bags of muhrs | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 7 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | 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 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/27/69/) - next →: [sentence 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/27/71/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/27/)