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title: Punchkin Fakir wandered through the palace, and saw many beautiful t… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Punchkin Fakir wandered through the palace, and saw many beautiful things there, till at last he reached the room where Balna sat singing beside her little boy's cradle. Who acts: Punchkin, Balna. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, with its dep
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 93

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Punchkin Fakir wandered through the palace, and saw many beautiful things there, till at last he reached the room where Balna sat singing beside her little boy's cradle.

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**Who acts:** Punchkin, Balna · **What happens:** wander, see, reach, sit, sing · **To what, where:** palace, many beautiful things, room, last, cradle

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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 (Punchkin, Balna), 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:pg7128:9:93
# text = Punchkin Fakir wandered through the palace, and saw many beautiful things there, till at last he reached the room where Balna sat singing beside her little boy's cradle.
1	Punchkin	Punchkin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Fakir	Fakir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
23	Balna	Balna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
26	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	's	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	cradle	cradle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wander** | past | Punchkin |  |  | the palace |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through palace=Trajectory |
| 2 | **see** | past |  | many beautiful things |  | there |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
| 3 | **reach** | past | Punchkin | the room |  | last |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent room=Theme at last=Asset |
| 4 | **sit** | past | Balna |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | Balna *not said here* |  |  | Balna's little boy's cradle |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside cradle=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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