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title: The king was very angry when he heard of the theft, and caused procl… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The king was very angry when he heard of the theft, and caused proclamation concerning it to be made throughout all the city and surrounding country. Who acts: king, proclamation. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, with its dependency tree and
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 99

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The king was very angry when he heard of the theft, and caused proclamation concerning it to be made throughout all the city and surrounding country.

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**Who acts:** king, proclamation · **What happens:** be, hear, cause, concern, make, surround · **To what, where:** proclamation, country

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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 (king, proclamation), 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:pg7128:28:99
# text = The king was very angry when he heard of the theft, and caused proclamation concerning it to be made throughout all the city and surrounding country.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	theft	theft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	proclamation	proclamation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	concerning	concern	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
21	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	24	det:predet	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	surrounding	surround	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	conj	_	_
27	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the king |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hear** | past | king |  |  |  |  | of the theft | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of theft=Stimulus |
| 3 | **cause** | past | the king *not said here* | proclamation |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition proclamation=Patient |
| 4 | **concern** | gerund | proclamation *not said here* | proclamation |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer |
| 5 | **make** | to-infinitive · passive | the king *not said here* |  |  |  | throughout all city |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» |
| 6 | **surround** | gerund | the king *not said here* | country |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme country=Co-Theme |

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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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