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title: Rupsinh slipped down from his tree and slipped noiselessly to where… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Rupsinh slipped down from his tree and slipped noiselessly to where the queen of the fairies had tethered her horse and put his saddle on its back. Who acts: Rupsinh. 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 
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 53

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Rupsinh slipped down from his tree and slipped noiselessly to where the queen of the fairies had tethered her horse and put his saddle on its back.

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**Who acts:** Rupsinh · **What happens:** slip down, slip, tether, put · **To what, where:** queen, saddle, back

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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 (Rupsinh), 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:pg76982:19:53
# text = Rupsinh slipped down from his tree and slipped noiselessly to where the queen of the fairies had tethered her horse and put his saddle on its back.
1	Rupsinh	Rupsinh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	slipped	slip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	down	down	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	slipped	slip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	noiselessly	noiselessly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
11	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	18	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	tethered	tether	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	saddle	saddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slip down** | past | Rupsinh |  |  |  |  | from Rupsinh's tree; down *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from tree=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **slip** | past | Rupsinh *not said here* |  |  |  |  | noiselessly *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **tether** | past · perfect · passive |  | the queen of the fairies |  |  |  | queen's horse *obj* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient horse=Result |
| 4 | **put** | infinitive |  | Rupsinh's saddle |  | saddle's back |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent saddle=Theme on back=Destination |

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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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