--- title: The other sisters, however, thought Balna unnecessarily suspicious,… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The other sisters, however, thought Balna unnecessarily suspicious, and instead of following her advice, they gave the Prudhan's daughter some of the cake, and she went home and told her mother all about it. Who acts: other sisters, sisters, Balna. 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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 (other sisters, sisters, Balna), 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:pg7128:9:60 # text = The other sisters, however, thought Balna unnecessarily suspicious, and instead of following her advice, they gave the Prudhan's daughter some of the cake, and she went home and told her mother all about it. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 sisters sister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 however however ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 Balna Balna PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 unnecessarily unnecessarily ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 suspicious suspicious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=SCONJ 15 mark _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 13 fixed _ _ 15 following follow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 16 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 advice advice NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 Prudhan Prudhan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 23 's 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 iobj _ _ 25 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 20 obj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 cake cake NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 33 home home ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 36 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 iobj _ _ 38 all all ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 39 about about ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the other sisters | Balna | | | | however, suspicious *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot balna=Theme | | 2 | **follow** | gerund | the other sisters *not said here* | Balna's advice | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme | | 3 | **give** | past | sisters *= sister* | some | the Prudhan's daughter | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient some=Theme | | 4 | **go** | past | Balna | | | | | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Balna *not said here* | | Balna's mother | | | about cake | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient about it=Topic | 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 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/9/59/) - next →: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/9/61/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/9/)