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title: Next he noticed the Prudhan's widow come to the door, and beg for a… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Next he noticed the Prudhan's widow come to the door, and beg for a few sticks from the fire to cook her dinner with. Who acts: Prudhan, widow. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 20

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Next he noticed the Prudhan's widow come to the door, and beg for a few sticks from the fire to cook her dinner with.

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**Who acts:** Prudhan, widow · **What happens:** notice, come, cook · **To what, where:** beg, door, dinner · **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 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, widow), 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:pg7128:9:20
# text = Next he noticed the Prudhan's widow come to the door, and beg for a few sticks from the fire to cook her dinner with.
1	Next	next	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	noticed	notice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Prudhan	Prudhan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	widow	widow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	beg	beg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	cook	cook	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **notice** | past | Prudhan | beg for a few sticks from the fire |  |  |  | next *property* | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive | the Prudhan's widow |  |  | the door |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **cook** | to-infinitive | Prudhan *not said here* | Balna's dinner |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent dinner=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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