--- title: The _grateful animals_ theme occurs in "The Soothsayer's Son" (_infr… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The _grateful animals_ theme occurs in "The Soothsayer's Son" (_infra_, No. x.), and frequently in Indian folk-tales (see Temple's Analysis, III. i. 5-7; _Wideawake Stories_, pp. Who acts: theme, Indian folk tales. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, II. Princess Labam., with its de --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/33/7/) [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/) / [II. Princess Labam.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/33/) / 7 # Indian Fairy Tales, II. Princess Labam., sentence 7 The \_grateful animals\_ theme occurs in "The Soothsayer's Son" (\_infra\_, No. x.), and frequently in Indian folk-tales (see Temple's Analysis, III. i. 5-7; \_Wideawake Stories\_, pp. **Who acts:** theme, Indian folk tales · **What happens:** occur, see · **To what, where:** Analysis This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, II. Princess Labam.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (theme, Indian folk tales), 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:pg7128:33:7 # text = The _grateful animals_ theme occurs in "The Soothsayer's Son" (_infra_, No. x.), and frequently in Indian folk-tales (see Temple's Analysis, III. i. 5-7; _Wideawake Stories_, pp. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 _ _ ADV RBS Degree=Sup 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 grateful grateful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 7 punct _ _ 6 theme theme NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 occurs occur VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Soothsayer Soothsayer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 12 's 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 Son Son PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 15 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 infra infra ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 18 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 No. no. NOUN NN Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 x x NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 22 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 26 frequently frequently ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 28 Indian Indian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 29 folk folk NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 parataxis _ _ 32 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 acl _ _ 34 Temple Temple PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 35 's 's PART POS _ 34 case _ _ 36 Analysis Analysis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 III III NUM CD NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card 36 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 33 punct _ _ 40 i. i. X FW Foreign=Yes 33 conj _ _ 41 5-7 5-7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 40 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ; ; PUNCT : _ 45 punct _ _ 43 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 Wideawake wideawake NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 compound _ _ 45 Stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 48 pp page NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **occur** | present | theme | | | | | in the Soothsayer's Son | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in son=Location | | 2 | **see** | infinitive | Indian folk tales *not said here* | Temple's Analysis | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer analysis=Stimulus | 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 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/33/6/) - next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/33/8/) - ↑ back to [II. 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