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title: The Raja's wife died when they were quite little children, so these… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Raja's wife died when they were quite little children, so these seven poor Princesses were left with no mother to take care of them. Who acts: wife, daughters, these. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 5

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The Raja's wife died when they were quite little children, so these seven poor Princesses were left with no mother to take care of them.

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**Who acts:** wife, daughters, these · **What happens:** die, be, princess, leave, take · **To what, where:** little children, seven poor Princesses, care

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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 (wife, daughters, these), 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:pg7128:9:5
# text = The Raja's wife died when they were quite little children, so these seven poor Princesses were left with no mother to take care of them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Raja	Raja	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
14	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	17	nsubj	_	_
15	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
16	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Princesses	princess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
22	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
25	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past | the Raja's wife |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **is a** | past | daughters *= daughter* | little children |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **princess** |  | these |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **leave** | past · passive |  | seven poor Princesses |  |  |  | with no mother | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with mother=Theme |
| 5 | **take** | to-infinitive |  | care |  |  |  | of daughters *= daughter* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of they=Initial\_Location |

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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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