---
title: The Rajah told her to have no fear, and that he would soon find the… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: The Rajah told her to have no fear, and that he would soon find the conspirators and properly punish them. Who acts: Rajah. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/19/56/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Jade Story Book; Stories from the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/) / [Opening, part 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/19/) / 56

# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 56

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The Rajah told her to have no fear, and that he would soon find the conspirators and properly punish them.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Rajah · **What happens:** tell, have, find, punish · **To what, where:** queen, fear, conspirators · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rajah), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg65965:19:56
# text = The Rajah told her to have no fear, and that he would soon find the conspirators and properly punish them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Rajah	Rajah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
15	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	conspirators	conspirator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	punish	punish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the Rajah |  | queen |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Rajah *not said here* | no fear |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Patient |
| 3 | **find** | would | Rajah | the conspirators |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conspirator=Topic |
| 4 | **punish** | infinitive | Rajah *not said here* | conspirators *= conspirator* |  |  |  | properly *property* | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**Text:** «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/19/55/)
- next →: [sentence 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/19/57/)
- ↑ back to [Opening, part 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/19/)