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title: "Good," said the king; "but if this Raja's son wishes to marry my da… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Good," said the king; "but if this Raja's son wishes to marry my daughter, he must first do whatever I bid him. Who acts: king, son. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 39

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"Good," said the king; "but if this Raja's son wishes to marry my daughter, he must first do whatever I bid him.

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**Who acts:** king, son · **What happens:** say, wish, marry, do, bid · **To what, where:** daughter, whatever · **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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, son), 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:pg7128:8:39
# text = "Good," said the king; "but if this Raja's son wishes to marry my daughter, he must first do whatever I bid him.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	Raja	Raja	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	wishes	wish	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	25	advmod	_	_
25	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
26	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	obj	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	bid	bid	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the king |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **wish** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | this Raja's son |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **marry** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | this Raja's son *not said here* | my daughter |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient |
| 4 | **do** *in a quote* | must | son |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **bid** *in a quote* | past | the king *= king* | whatever |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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