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title: The prince and the vizier's son most gladly accepted the invitation,… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The prince and the vizier's son most gladly accepted the invitation, and received a right noble welcome from the king. Who acts: prince. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 3

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The prince and the vizier's son most gladly accepted the invitation, and received a right noble welcome from the king.

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**Who acts:** prince · **What happens:** accept, receive · **To what, where:** invitation, right noble welcome

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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 (prince), 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:pg7128:29:3
# text = The prince and the vizier's son most gladly accepted the invitation, and received a right noble welcome from the king.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	vizier	vizier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
8	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	9	advmod	_	_
9	gladly	gladly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	accepted	accept	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	invitation	invitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	welcome	welcome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accept** | past | the prince and the vizier's son | the invitation |  |  |  | gladly *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent invitation=Theme |
| 2 | **receive** | past | the prince and the vizier's son *not said here* | a right noble welcome |  |  |  | from the king | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent welcome=Theme from king=Source |

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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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