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title: The princess gave a cry of delight on seeing all these wonderful pla… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The princess gave a cry of delight on seeing all these wonderful play-things; but the minister said “These are nothing to what you will see, if you will visit our ship. Who acts: princess, minister, you, delight. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Eighth Key., with 
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 32

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The princess gave a cry of delight on seeing all these wonderful play-things; but the minister said “These are nothing to what you will see, if you will visit our ship.

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**Who acts:** princess, minister, you, delight · **What happens:** give, see, say, be, visit, cry · **To what, where:** cry, wonderful play things, nothing, ship · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Eighth Key.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, minister, you, delight), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg76982:11:32
# text = The princess gave a cry of delight on seeing all these wonderful play-things; but the minister said “These are nothing to what you will see, if you will visit our ship.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
11	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
12	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
21	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	20	ccomp	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nmod	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
35	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **give** | past | the princess | a cry of delight |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | gerund | the princess *not said here* | all wonderful play things |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the minister |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | nothing |  |  |  | what *nmod* | tree rules |
| 5 | **see** *in a quote* | future | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **visit** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | future | you | our ship |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Co-Agent |
| 7 | **cry** |  | delight |  |  |  |  |  | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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:** «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (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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