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title: So the seven Princes rode through the wood until they came to the pl… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So the seven Princes rode through the wood until they came to the place where the seven Princesses sat crying and wringing their hands. Who acts: seven Princes, voices, seven Princesses. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, with its dependency tr
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 74

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So the seven Princes rode through the wood until they came to the place where the seven Princesses sat crying and wringing their hands.

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**Who acts:** seven Princes, voices, seven Princesses · **What happens:** ride, come, sit, cry, wring · **To what, where:** wood, place, hands

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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 (seven Princes, voices, seven Princesses), 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:pg7128:9:74
# text = So the seven Princes rode through the wood until they came to the place where the seven Princesses sat crying and wringing their hands.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	Princes	Prince	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	Princesses	Princess	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
20	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	xcomp	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	wringing	wring	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	conj	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | past | the seven Princes |  |  | the wood |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through wood=Trajectory |
| 2 | **come** | past | voices *= voice* |  |  | the place |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **sit** | past | the seven Princesses |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | the seven Princesses *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **wring** | gerund | the seven Princesses *not said here* | Princesses's hands |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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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