--- title: The following night, on the return of the prince from his visit to G… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The following night, on the return of the prince from his visit to Gulizar, he and the vizier's son, taking the horses and bags of muhrs, went to a graveyard about a mile or so distant. Who acts: son, prince. 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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, prince), 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:pg7128:28:95 # text = The following night, on the return of the prince from his visit to Gulizar, he and the vizier's son, taking the horses and bags of muhrs, went to a graveyard about a mile or so distant. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 following follow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 amod _ _ 3 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 return return NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 from from ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 visit visit NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Gulizar Gulizar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 vizier vizier NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 21 's 's PART POS _ 20 case _ _ 22 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 taking take VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 acl _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 bags bag NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 muhrs muhr NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 parataxis _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 graveyard graveyard NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 about about ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 mile mile NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 39 or or CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 so so ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 distant distant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **follow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **take** | gerund | the vizier's son *not said here* | | the horses and bags of muhrs | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument horse=Destination | | 3 | **go** | past | | | | a graveyard about a mile | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to graveyard=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **return** | | the prince | | | prince's visit to Gulizar | | | nom return «communication intransitive»: of=agent from=place | | 5 | **visit** | | prince | | | | | to Gulizar | nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl | 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 94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/28/94/) - next →: [sentence 96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/28/96/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/28/)