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title: But no one can do the things the king tells him to do; so all the Ra… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But no one can do the things the king tells him to do; so all the Rajas and Rajas' sons who have tried have been put to death. Who acts: one, king, things, sons. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 48

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But no one can do the things the king tells him to do; so all the Rajas and Rajas' sons who have tried have been put to death.

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**Who acts:** one, king, things, sons · **What happens:** do, tell, try, put · **To what, where:** things, son, Rajas · **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 (one, king, things, sons), 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:pg7128:8:48
# text = But no one can do the things the king tells him to do; so all the Rajas and Rajas' sons who have tried have been put to death.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Rajas	raja	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	Rajas	raja	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	tried	try	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | can | no one | the things |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the king | the things *not said here* | son |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the things *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **try** | present · perfect | Rajas's sons |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **put** | present · perfect · passive |  | all Rajas and Rajas's sons |  |  |  | to death | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |

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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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