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title: How can I crush the oil out of all this mustard seed in one day?" he… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: How can I crush the oil out of all this mustard seed in one day?" he said to himself; "and if I do not, the king will kill me." Who acts: I, prince, king. 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 c
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 58

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How can I crush the oil out of all this mustard seed in one day?" he said to himself; "and if I do not, the king will kill me."

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**Who acts:** I, prince, king · **What happens:** crush, say, not do, kill · **To what, where:** oil, mustard seed, prince, me · **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 (I, prince, king), 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:pg7128:8:58
# text = How can I crush the oil out of all this mustard seed in one day?" he said to himself; "and if I do not, the king will kill me."
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	crush	crush	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
11	mustard	mustard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
25	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
34	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crush** | can | I | the oil |  | all mustard seed in one day |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | prince |  | prince |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient |
| 3 | **not** **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **kill** | future | the king | me |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |

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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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