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title: He does so when thieves are about, and so saves the king's treasures… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He does so when thieves are about, and so saves the king's treasures, of which he gets an appropriate share. Who acts: youth, thieves, king. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIV. Lac of Rupees., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XIV. Lac of Rupees., sentence 14

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He does so when thieves are about, and so saves the king's treasures, of which he gets an appropriate share.

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**Who acts:** youth, thieves, king · **What happens:** do, be, save, get, treasure · **To what, where:** treasures, appropriate share

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIV. Lac of Rupees.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, thieves, king), 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:pg7128:45:14
# text = He does so when thieves are about, and so saves the king's treasures, of which he gets an appropriate share.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
5	thieves	thief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	saves	save	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obl	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	share	share	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | youth |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | thieves |  |  |  |  | about *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **save** | present |  | the king's treasures |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme |
| 4 | **get** | present | youth | a appropriate share |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer share=Stimulus |
| 5 | **treasure** |  | the king |  |  |  |  |  | nom treasure «possession transitive»: 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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