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title: On their return, their mother, who had kept watch for them all night… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: On their return, their mother, who had kept watch for them all night long with her little bright eye, said, "Well, children, what have you brought home for me?" Who acts: Sun. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, with its dependency tree and the
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 18

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On their return, their mother, who had kept watch for them all night long with her little bright eye, said, "Well, children, what have you brought home for me?"

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**Who acts:** Sun · **What happens:** keep, say, bring, return · **To what, where:** mother, return, children · **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 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), 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:pg7128:29:18
# text = On their return, their mother, who had kept watch for them all night long with her little bright eye, said, "Well, children, what have you brought home for me?"
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	watch	watch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	xcomp	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
19	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
23	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	28	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
28	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl:relcl	_	_
34	home	home	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past · perfect · passive |  | Sun's mother |  |  |  | with mother's little bright eye; long *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past |  |  |  | Sun's return |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bring** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | children |  |  |  | for me; home *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **return** |  | Sun |  |  |  |  |  | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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