--- title: There the king gave him eighty pounds of mustard seed, and told him… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: There the king gave him eighty pounds of mustard seed, and told him to crush all the oil out of it that day, and bring it next morning to him to the court-house. " Who acts: king. 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" **Who acts:** king · **What happens:** give, tell, crush, bring · **To what, where:** eighty pounds, son, king, oil · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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), 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:pg7128:8:53 # text = There the king gave him eighty pounds of mustard seed, and told him to crush all the oil out of it that day, and bring it next morning to him to the court-house. " 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 4 expl _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 iobj _ _ 6 eighty eighty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 pounds pound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 mustard mustard NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 seed seed NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 iobj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 crush crush VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 17 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 19 det:predet _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 20 out out ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ _ 23 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 24 det _ _ 24 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl:unmarked _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obl _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 35 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 36 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 39 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | past | the king | eighty pounds of mustard seed | son | there | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient pound=Theme | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the king *not said here* | | king | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **crush** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* | all oil | | oil | day | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oil=Patient | | 4 | **bring** | infinitive | the king *not said here* | oil | king | | morning | to the court house | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to he=Destination | 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 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/8/52/) - next →: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/8/54/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/8/)