--- title: The prince then returned to the old woman's house; and when morning… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The prince then returned to the old woman's house; and when morning came the princess said to her mother, "The son of a great Raja has come to this country, and I wish to marry him." Who acts: prince, morning. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, morning), 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:pg7128:8:37 # text = The prince then returned to the old woman's house; and when morning came the princess said to her mother, "The son of a great Raja has come to this country, and I wish to marry him." 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 4 returned return VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 13 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 14 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 18 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 Raja Raja PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 30 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 ccomp _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 34 det _ _ 34 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 wish wish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 xcomp _ _ 41 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **return** | past | the prince | | | | then | to the old woman's house *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result | | 2 | **come** | past | morning | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the prince *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **come** *in a quote* | present · perfect | | | | this country | | to princess's mother the son of a great Raja | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to mother=Initial\_Location to country=Destination | | 5 | **wish** *in a quote* | present | the prince *= prince* | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **marry** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | the prince *= prince* *not said here* | son | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | 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 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/8/36/) - next →: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/8/38/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/8/)