--- title: They, in obedience to their king's order, continued to supply him wi… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: They, in obedience to their king's order, continued to supply him with provisions and water. Who acts: king. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/15/14/) [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/) / [Indian Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/) / [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/15/) / 14 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 14 They, in obedience to their king's order, continued to supply him with provisions and water. **Who acts:** king · **What happens:** continue, supply, order · **To what, where:** obedience, Gangazara This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7128:15:14 # text = They, in obedience to their king's order, continued to supply him with provisions and water. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 obedience obedience NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 continued continue VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 supply supply VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 provisions provision NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **continue** | participle | | obedience to king's king's order *not said here* | | | | | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **supply** | to-infinitive | | | Gangazara | | | with provisions and water | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with provision=Theme | | 3 | **order** | | king's king | | | | | | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **Text:** «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/15/13/) - next →: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/15/15/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/15/)