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title: The widowed queen, to test the story, shewed the pomegranate to the… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The widowed queen, to test the story, shewed the pomegranate to the fairy queen and bade her hide herself inside it. Who acts: widowed queen. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 248

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The widowed queen, to test the story, shewed the pomegranate to the fairy queen and bade her hide herself inside it.

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**Who acts:** widowed queen · **What happens:** widow, test, shew, hide · **To what, where:** story, pomegranate, queen, temple

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (widowed queen), 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:pg76982:19:248
# text = The widowed queen, to test the story, shewed the pomegranate to the fairy queen and bade her hide herself inside it.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	widowed	widow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	test	test	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	shewed	shew	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	pomegranate	pomegranate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
21	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	obj	_	_
22	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **widow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn orphan-29.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **test** | to-infinitive | the widowed queen *not said here* | the story |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme |
| 3 | **shew** | past | the widowed queen | the pomegranate |  |  |  | to the fairy queen  all and bade | tree rules |
| 4 | **hide** | infinitive | the widowed queen *not said here* | queen |  | temple |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent herself=Patient inside it=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:** «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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