--- title: The "letter to kill bearer" and "letter substituted" are frequent in… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The "letter to kill bearer" and "letter substituted" are frequent in both European (see my List _s. v._) and Indian Folk-Tales (Temple, Analysis, II. iv. Who acts: letter, my. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVI. the Son of Seven Queens., with its dependency tree and the pragmat --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/47/14/) [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/) / [XVI. the Son of Seven Queens.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/47/) / 14 # Indian Fairy Tales, XVI. the Son of Seven Queens., sentence 14 The "letter to kill bearer" and "letter substituted" are frequent in both European (see my List \_s. v.\_) and Indian Folk-Tales (Temple, Analysis, II. iv. **Who acts:** letter, my · **What happens:** kill, substitute, be, see, list · **To what, where:** bearer, letter, List This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVI. the Son of Seven Queens.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (letter, my), 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:pg7128:47:14 # text = The "letter to kill bearer" and "letter substituted" are frequent in both European (see my List _s. v._) and Indian Folk-Tales (Temple, Analysis, II. iv. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 acl _ _ 6 bearer bearer NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 11 substituted substitute VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 13 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 frequent frequent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 15 in in SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 16 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 17 advmod _ _ 17 European European ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 advmod _ _ 18 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 20 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 List list NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 s. S. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 24 v. V. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 25 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 Indian Indian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 29 Folk Folk PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 Tales Tale PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 32 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 Temple Temple PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 Analysis Analysis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 II II NUM CD NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card 33 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 33 punct _ _ 39 iv iv NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **kill** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the letter *not said here* | bearer and letter | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bearer=Theme | | 2 | **substitute** *in a quote* | participle | | letter *not said here* | | | | | vn substitute-13.6.2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | the letter | | | | | frequent *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **see** | infinitive | the letter *not said here* | my List | | | | s. iv *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer list=Stimulus | | 5 | **list** | | my | | | | | | nom list «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/47/13/) - next →: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/47/15/) - ↑ back to [XVI. the Son of Seven Queens.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/47/)