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title: No sooner had she eaten it, however, than the Prudhan's daughter wen… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 42

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No sooner had she eaten it, however, than the Prudhan's daughter went home and said to her mother, "I do not wonder the seven Princesses will not eat the dinner you prepare for them, for by their mother's grave there grows a beautiful pomelo tree, and they go there every day and eat the pomeloes.

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**Who acts:** mother, daughter, seven Princesses, grave, daughters · **What happens:** eat, go, say, not wonder, not eat, prepare · **To what, where:** dinner, mother, beautiful pomelo tree, pomeloes · **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 (mother, daughter, seven Princesses, grave), 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:pg7128:9:42
# text = No sooner had she eaten it, however, than the Prudhan's daughter went home and said to her mother, "I do not wonder the seven Princesses will not eat the dinner you prepare for them, for by their mother's grave there grows a beautiful pomelo tree, and they go there every day and eat the pomeloes.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	however	however	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Prudhan	Prudhan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	home	home	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	wonder	wonder	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	Princesses	princess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
31	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	ccomp	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	prepare	prepare	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	acl:relcl	_	_
38	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
41	for	for	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
42	by	by	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
43	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	's	's	PART	POS	_	44	case	_	_
46	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
47	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	48	advmod	_	_
48	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	parataxis	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
50	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
51	pomelo	pomelo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	compound	_	_
52	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
55	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
56	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	parataxis	_	_
57	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	56	advmod	_	_
58	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	59	det	_	_
59	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl:unmarked	_	_
60	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
61	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	56	conj	_	_
62	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
63	pomeloes	pomeloe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	61	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past · perfect | mother | dinner |  |  |  | however, soon *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **go** | past | the Prudhan's daughter |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Prudhan's daughter *not said here* |  | mother's mother |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mother=Recipient |
| 4 | **not** **wonder** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | present · do-support | the Prudhan's daughter *= daughter* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **not** **eat** *in a quote* | future | the seven Princesses | the dinner |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient |
| 6 | **prepare** *in a quote* | present | mother's mother *= mother* | the dinner *not said here* |  |  |  | for Princesses *= princess* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent dinner=Product for they=Beneficiary |
| 7 | **grow** *in a quote* | present | Princesses's mother's grave | a beautiful pomelo tree |  | there |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme |
| 8 | **go** *in a quote* | present | daughters *= daughter* |  |  | there | day |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **eat** *in a quote* | present | daughters *= daughter* *not said here* | the pomeloes |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pomeloe=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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