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title: She gave them nothing but bread to eat, and very little of that, and… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 29

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She gave them nothing but bread to eat, and very little of that, and very little water to drink; so these seven poor little Princesses, who had been accustomed to have everything comfortable about them, and good food and good clothes all their lives long, were very miserable and unhappy; and they used to go out every day and sit by their dead mother's tomb and cry--and say:

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**Who acts:** Ranee, these, good food, daughters · **What happens:** give, eat, drink, princess, accustom, have · **To what, where:** nothing, daughters, seven poor little Princesses, everything · **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 (Ranee, these, good food, 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:pg7128:9:29
# text = She gave them nothing but bread to eat, and very little of that, and very little water to drink; so these seven poor little Princesses, who had been accustomed to have everything comfortable about them, and good food and good clothes all their lives long, were very miserable and unhappy; and they used to go out every day and sit by their dead mother's tomb and cry--and say:
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	obj	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
24	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	28	nsubj	_	_
25	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
26	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	Princesses	princess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	accustomed	accustom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl:relcl	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
36	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	35	obj	_	_
37	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	xcomp	_	_
38	about	about	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
42	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nsubj	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	43	conj	_	_
47	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	49	det:predet	_	_
48	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	obl:unmarked	_	_
50	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
52	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	cop	_	_
53	very	very	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
54	miserable	miserable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
56	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	60	punct	_	_
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
59	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	nsubj	_	_
60	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
61	to	to	PART	TO	_	62	mark	_	_
62	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	60	xcomp	_	_
63	out	out	ADV	RB	_	62	advmod	_	_
64	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	65	det	_	_
65	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	obl:unmarked	_	_
66	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	67	cc	_	_
67	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	60	conj	_	_
68	by	by	ADP	IN	_	73	case	_	_
69	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	71	nmod:poss	_	_
70	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	71	amod	_	_
71	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	73	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
72	's	's	PART	POS	_	71	case	_	_
73	tomb	tomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	67	obl	_	_
74	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	75	cc	_	_
75	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	67	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
76	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	78	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
77	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	78	cc	_	_
78	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
79	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | Ranee | nothing | daughters *= daughter* |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive | Ranee *not said here* | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **drink** | to-infinitive | Ranee *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **princess** |  | these |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **accustom** | past · perfect · passive |  | seven poor little Princesses |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **have** | to-infinitive |  | everything |  |  |  | comfortable *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient |
| 7 | **is** | past | good food and good clothes |  |  |  |  | miserable *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **be** |  | good food and good clothes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **use** | past | daughters *= daughter* |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 10 | **go out** | to-infinitive | daughters *= daughter* *not said here* |  |  |  | day | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 11 | **sit** | present | daughters *= daughter* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by daughters's dead mother's tomb | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by tomb=Location |
| 12 | **cry** *speech: express* | infinitive | daughters *= daughter* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 13 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Ranee *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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