--- title: Then Star turned to Sun and spoke thus, "Because you went out to amu… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then Star turned to Sun and spoke thus, "Because you went out to amuse yourself with your friends, and feasted and enjoyed yourself, without any thought of your mother at home--you shall be cursed. Who acts: Star, you. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/29/25/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Indian Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/) / [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/29/) / 25 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 25 Then Star turned to Sun and spoke thus, "Because you went out to amuse yourself with your friends, and feasted and enjoyed yourself, without any thought of your mother at home--you shall be cursed. **Who acts:** Star, you · **What happens:** turn, speak, go out, amuse, feast, enjoy · **To what, where:** Sun, yourself, you, mother · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Star, you), 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:pg7128:29:25 # text = Then Star turned to Sun and spoke thus, "Because you went out to amuse yourself with your friends, and feasted and enjoyed yourself, without any thought of your mother at home--you shall be cursed. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 Star Star PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 thus thus ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 Because because SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 14 out out ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 amuse amuse VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 17 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 16 obj _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 feasted feast VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 enjoyed enjoy VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 26 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 without without ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 30 det _ _ 30 thought thought NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 34 at at ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 -- -- PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 38 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 39 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 40 aux:pass _ _ 40 cursed curse VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | past | Star | | Sun | | then | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to sun=Result | | 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Star *not said here* | | | | | thus *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **go out** *in a quote* | past | you | | | | | out *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **amuse** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | yourself | | | | with your friends | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus yourself=Experiencer | | 5 | **feast** *in a quote* | past | Star *not said here* | | | | | | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **enjoy** *in a quote* | past | Star *not said here* | yourself | | | | without any thought of your mother at home | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer yourself=Stimulus | | 7 | **curse** *in a quote* | shall · passive | | you | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 8 | **think** *in a quote* | | | your mother at home | | | | | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/29/24/) - next →: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/29/26/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/29/)