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title: The queen was in great distress; and she and other fairies followed… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The queen was in great distress; and she and other fairies followed Rupsinh’s tracks until they came near the elephant mountain. Who acts: queen, fairies. 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 pragmati
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 56

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The queen was in great distress; and she and other fairies followed Rupsinh’s tracks until they came near the elephant mountain.

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**Who acts:** queen, fairies · **What happens:** be, follow, come · **To what, where:** great distress, tracks, elephant mountain

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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 (queen, fairies), 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:pg76982:19:56
# text = The queen was in great distress; and she and other fairies followed Rupsinh’s tracks until they came near the elephant mountain.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	distress	distress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
13	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	Rupsinh	Rupsinh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	tracks	track	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
20	near	near	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 queen |  |  | great distress |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **follow** | past | queen | Rupsinh's tracks |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent track=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | fairies *= fairy* |  |  | the elephant mountain |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near mountain=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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