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description: At last he told his father and mother that he wanted to go and see the Princess Labam. " Who acts: prince. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 50

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At last he told his father and mother that he wanted to go and see the Princess Labam. "

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**Who acts:** prince · **What happens:** tell, want, go, see · **To what, where:** father, last, Princess Labam · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1. 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:pg7128:7:50
# text = At last he told his father and mother that he wanted to go and see the Princess Labam. "
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	iobj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Labam	Labam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | prince |  | prince's father and mother | last |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent father=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **want** | past | prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | infinitive | prince *not said here* | the Princess Labam |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer labam=Stimulus |

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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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