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title: And she bade her watch the seven Princesses, and see if any one gave… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And she bade her watch the seven Princesses, and see if any one gave them anything to eat. Who acts: Ranee, one. 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 34

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And she bade her watch the seven Princesses, and see if any one gave them anything to eat.

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**Who acts:** Ranee, one · **What happens:** bade, watch, see, give, eat · **To what, where:** seven Princesses, anything, Princesses

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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, one), 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:pg7128:9:34
# text = And she bade her watch the seven Princesses, and see if any one gave them anything to eat.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	bade	bade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	Princesses	Princess	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	_
17	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	15	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bade** | past | Ranee |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **watch** | infinitive | Ranee *not said here* | the seven Princesses |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | infinitive | Ranee *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **give** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | any one | anything | Princesses *= princess* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient anything=Theme |
| 5 | **eat** | to-infinitive | any one *not said here* | anything *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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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