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title: There he saw his seven daughters carefully washing the rice and prep… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There he saw his seven daughters carefully washing the rice and preparing the curry, and as each dish was completed, they put it by the fire ready to be cooked. Who acts: Prudhan, seven daughters, daughters. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, w
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 19

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There he saw his seven daughters carefully washing the rice and preparing the curry, and as each dish was completed, they put it by the fire ready to be cooked.

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**Who acts:** Prudhan, seven daughters, daughters · **What happens:** see, wash, prepare, complete, put, cook · **To what, where:** seven daughters, rice, curry, dish

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prudhan, seven daughters, daughters), 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:pg7128:9:19
# text = There he saw his seven daughters carefully washing the rice and preparing the curry, and as each dish was completed, they put it by the fire ready to be cooked.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
8	washing	wash	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	preparing	prepare	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	curry	curry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	completed	complete	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	cooked	cook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Prudhan | Prudhan's seven daughters |  | there |  | carefully *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **wash** | gerund | Prudhan's seven daughters *not said here* | the rice |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rice=Patient |
| 3 | **prepare** | gerund | Prudhan's seven daughters *not said here* | the curry |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curry=Patient |
| 4 | **complete** | past · passive |  | each dish |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 5 | **put** | past | daughters *= daughter* | curry |  |  |  | by the fire | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme by fire=Destination |
| 6 | **cook** | to-infinitive · passive | daughters *= daughter* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V» |

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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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