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title: They enjoyed the great feast that had been prepared for them, withou… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They enjoyed the great feast that had been prepared for them, without a thought of saving any of it to take home to their mother--but the gentle Moon did not forget her. Who acts: Sun, thought, gentle Moon. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, w
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 16

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They enjoyed the great feast that had been prepared for them, without a thought of saving any of it to take home to their mother--but the gentle Moon did not forget her.

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**Who acts:** Sun, thought, gentle Moon · **What happens:** enjoy, prepare, save, take, not forget · **To what, where:** great feast, any, mother

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sun, thought, gentle Moon), 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:pg7128:29:16
# text = They enjoyed the great feast that had been prepared for them, without a thought of saving any of it to take home to their mother--but the gentle Moon did not forget her.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	enjoyed	enjoy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	without	without	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	_
16	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	saving	save	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
18	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
23	home	home	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
32	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
34	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
35	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enjoy** | past | Sun | the great feast |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer feast=Stimulus |
| 2 | **prepare** | past · perfect · passive |  | the great feast |  |  |  | for Sun | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for they=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **save** | gerund | a thought *not said here* | any |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Theme |
| 4 | **take** | to-infinitive | a thought *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to Sun's mother *result*; home *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to mother=Result |
| 5 | **not** **forget** | past · do-support | the gentle Moon | mother |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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