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title: The Ranee, on hearing how well the Princesses fared, was exceedingly… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Ranee, on hearing how well the Princesses fared, was exceedingly angry, and sent her servants to pull down the dead Ranee's tomb, and fill the little tank with the ruins. Who acts: Ranee. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, with its dependen
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 61

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The Ranee, on hearing how well the Princesses fared, was exceedingly angry, and sent her servants to pull down the dead Ranee's tomb, and fill the little tank with the ruins.

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**Who acts:** Ranee · **What happens:** hear, fare, be, send, pull down, fill · **To what, where:** servants, tomb, little tank

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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), 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:pg7128:9:61
# text = The Ranee, on hearing how well the Princesses fared, was exceedingly angry, and sent her servants to pull down the dead Ranee's tomb, and fill the little tank with the ruins.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Ranee	Ranee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
6	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
7	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Princesses	Princess	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	fared	fare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
22	down	down	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	Ranee	Ranee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	tomb	tomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	fill	fill	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	tank	tank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	ruins	ruin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | gerund | the Ranee *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **fare** | past | the Ranee |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | angry, exceedingly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **send** | past | the Ranee *not said here* | Ranee's servants |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Theme |
| 5 | **pull down** | to-infinitive | the Ranee *not said here* | the dead Ranee's tomb |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tomb=Theme |
| 6 | **fill** | present | the Ranee *not said here* | the little tank |  |  |  | with the ruins | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent tank=Patient with ruin=Instrument |

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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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