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title: When the young men got to hear of this further increase of wealth th… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When the young men got to hear of this further increase of wealth they began to be more attentive and pleasing to their father than ever before. Who acts: young men, men. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 53

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When the young men got to hear of this further increase of wealth they began to be more attentive and pleasing to their father than ever before.

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**Who acts:** young men, men · **What happens:** get, hear, begin, be, please · **To what, where:** further increase

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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 (young men, men), 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:pg7128:29:53
# text = When the young men got to hear of this further increase of wealth they began to be more attentive and pleasing to their father than ever before.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
10	further	further	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	increase	increase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
18	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
19	attentive	attentive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advcl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	pleasing	please	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	than	than	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	27	advmod	_	_
27	before	before	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	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 | **get** | past | the young men |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hear** | to-infinitive | the young men *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of this further increase of wealth | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of increase=Stimulus |
| 3 | **begin** | past | men *= man* | this further increase of wealth *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent increase=Eventuality |
| 4 | **is** | to-infinitive | the young men *not said here* |  |  |  |  | attentive *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **please** | gerund | the young men *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to men's father; before *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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