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title: "Look here," he said, "in this handkerchief is some pilaw that the p… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Look here," he said, "in this handkerchief is some pilaw that the princess sent me this morning in the name of her deceased uncle. Who acts: son, princess. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 77

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"Look here," he said, "in this handkerchief is some pilaw that the princess sent me this morning in the name of her deceased uncle.

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**Who acts:** son, princess · **What happens:** look, say, be, send, decease, name · **To what, where:** pilaw, handkerchief, son, name, deceased uncle · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (son, princess), 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:pg7128:28:77
# text = "Look here," he said, "in this handkerchief is some pilaw that the princess sent me this morning in the name of her deceased uncle.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
3	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	pilaw	pilaw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	ccomp	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	deceased	decease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	amod	_	_
29	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  | here |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | son |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | some pilaw |  | this handkerchief |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **send** *in a quote* | past | the princess | son |  | the name of princess's deceased uncle | morning |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme in name=Destination |
| 5 | **decease** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn die-42.4 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **name** *in a quote* |  |  | princess's deceased uncle |  |  |  |  | nom name «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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