--- title: By your dead wife's tomb there grows a fine pomelo tree; you must br… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: By your dead wife's tomb there grows a fine pomelo tree; you must bring that here, and boil it, root and branch, and put a little of the water in which it has been boiled, on my forehead, and that will cure my headache." Who acts: you, that. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7128:9:47 # text = By your dead wife's tomb there grows a fine pomelo tree; you must bring that here, and boil it, root and branch, and put a little of the water in which it has been boiled, on my forehead, and that will cure my headache." 1 By by ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 2 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 tomb tomb NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 7 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 8 advmod _ _ 8 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 pomelo pomelo NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 17 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 16 obj _ _ 18 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 16 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 boil boil VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 root root NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 branch branch NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 put put VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 little little NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 40 obl _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj:pass _ _ 38 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 39 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 40 aux:pass _ _ 40 boiled boil VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 on on ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 forehead forehead NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 47 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 49 nsubj _ _ 48 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 49 aux _ _ 49 cure cure VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ _ 50 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 51 nmod:poss _ _ 51 headache headache NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 53 " " PUNCT '' _ 49 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | present | | a fine pomelo tree | | there | | by your dead wife's tomb | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme | | 2 | **bring** | must | you | that | | here | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent that=Theme | | 3 | **boil** | infinitive | you *not said here* | tree | | | | root and branch *obl* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 4 | **put** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a little of the water | | my forehead | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent little=Theme on forehead=Destination | | 5 | **boil** | present · perfect · passive | | little | | | | in the water | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient in which=Instrument | | 6 | **cure** | future | that | my headache | | | | | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer headache=Source | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/9/46/) - next →: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/9/48/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/9/)