--- title: Accordingly they did this; the prince wrote the letter at the vizier… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Accordingly they did this; the prince wrote the letter at the vizier's son's dictation. Who acts: exiles, prince, son. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/28/137/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Indian Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/) / [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/28/) / 137 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 137 Accordingly they did this; the prince wrote the letter at the vizier's son's dictation. **Who acts:** exiles, prince, son · **What happens:** do, write, dictate · **To what, where:** this, letter, dictation This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (exiles, prince, son), 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:pg7128:28:137 # text = Accordingly they did this; the prince wrote the letter at the vizier's son's dictation. 1 Accordingly accordingly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ; ; PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 wrote write VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 vizier vizier NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 14 's 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 16 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 dictation dictation NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | exiles *= exile* | this | | | | accordingly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | | 2 | **write** | past | the prince | the letter | | the vizier's son's dictation | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme | | 3 | **dictate** | | the vizier's son | | | | | | nom dictation «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | 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 136](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/28/136/) - next →: [sentence 138](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/28/138/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/28/)