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title: The king was very angry and asked the minister why he had done it; b… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The king was very angry and asked the minister why he had done it; but the minister dared not explain for fear of a third part of his body being turned into stone. Who acts: king, minister. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Eighth Key., with its dependency tree and
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 84

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The king was very angry and asked the minister why he had done it; but the minister dared not explain for fear of a third part of his body being turned into stone.

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**Who acts:** king, minister · **What happens:** be, ask, do, explain, turn, fear · **To what, where:** minister, head, fear, stone, third part

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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 (king, minister), 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:pg76982:11:84
# text = The king was very angry and asked the minister why he had done it; but the minister dared not explain for fear of a third part of his body being turned into stone.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	dared	dare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
21	explain	explain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	27	amod	_	_
27	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
33	into	into	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is** | past | the king |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the king *not said here* | the minister |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent minister=Recipient |
| 3 | **do** | past · perfect | king | head |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 4 | **explain** *speech: assert* | past | the minister |  |  |  |  | for fear of a third part of minister's body | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **turn** | gerund · passive |  | fear of a third part of minister's body *not said here* |  | stone |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: into stone=Trajectory |
| 6 | **fear** |  |  | a third part of minister's body |  |  |  |  | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=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:** «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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