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title: The prince showed him the mustard seed, and said to him, "How can I… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The prince showed him the mustard seed, and said to him, "How can I crush the oil out of all this mustard seed in one day? Who acts: prince, I. 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 62

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The prince showed him the mustard seed, and said to him, "How can I crush the oil out of all this mustard seed in one day?

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**Who acts:** prince, I · **What happens:** show, say, crush · **To what, where:** mustard seed, king, oil · **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 (prince, I), 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:pg7128:8:62
# text = The prince showed him the mustard seed, and said to him, "How can I crush the oil out of all this mustard seed in one day?
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	mustard	mustard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	crush	crush	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	26	det:predet	_	_
24	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
25	mustard	mustard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | past | the prince | the mustard seed | king |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient seed=Topic |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past |  |  | king |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 3 | **crush** *in a quote* | can | I | the oil |  | all mustard seed | day |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oil=Patient |

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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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