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title: The queens in turn became furious and sent their maids to complain t… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The queens in turn became furious and sent their maids to complain to the king. Who acts: queens. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Wisdom Seller., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 79

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The queens in turn became furious and sent their maids to complain to the king.

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**Who acts:** queens · **What happens:** become, send, complain · **To what, where:** maids, king

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Wisdom Seller.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queens), 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:pg76982:17:79
# text = The queens in turn became furious and sent their maids to complain to the king.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	queens	queen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	furious	furious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	maids	maid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	complain	complain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | the queens in turn |  |  |  |  | furious *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **send** | past | the queens in turn *not said here* | queens's maids |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maid=Theme |
| 3 | **complain** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | the queens in turn *not said here* |  | the king |  |  |  | vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient |

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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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