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title: "I am ill to-day, dear aunty," said the prince; "do let me stay till… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "I am ill to-day, dear aunty," said the prince; "do let me stay till to-morrow morning." Who acts: dear aunty. 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 7

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"I am ill to-day, dear aunty," said the prince; "do let me stay till to-morrow morning."

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**Who acts:** dear aunty · **What happens:** be, say, let, stay · **To what, where:** prince, dear aunty · **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 (dear aunty), 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:pg7128:8:7
# text = "I am ill to-day, dear aunty," said the prince; "do let me stay till to-morrow morning."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	aunty	aunty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	till	till	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | dear aunty *= aunty* |  |  |  | day | ill *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | dear aunty | the prince |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support |  | dear aunty *= aunty* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **stay** *in a quote* | infinitive | dear aunty *= aunty* *not said here* |  |  |  | morning |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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