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title: This was most readily promised by the nadhar, who immediately flew o… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This was most readily promised by the nadhar, who immediately flew off to the king of the fishes, and ordered it to make inquiries and to restore the ring. Who acts: nadhar. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 23

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This was most readily promised by the nadhar, who immediately flew off to the king of the fishes, and ordered it to make inquiries and to restore the ring.

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**Who acts:** nadhar · **What happens:** promise, fly off, order, make, restore · **To what, where:** This, nadhar, inquiries, ring

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nadhar), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg7128:17:23
# text = This was most readily promised by the nadhar, who immediately flew off to the king of the fishes, and ordered it to make inquiries and to restore the ring.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
3	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	4	advmod	_	_
4	readily	readily	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	promised	promise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	nadhar	nadhar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	off	off	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	fishes	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
26	inquiries	inquiry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	restore	restore	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past · passive | the nadhar | This |  |  |  | readily *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **fly off** | past | the nadhar |  |  |  |  | to the king of the fishes *result*; immediately *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to king=Result |
| 3 | **order** | past | the nadhar *not said here* |  | nadhar |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent it=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the nadhar *not said here* | inquiries |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset inquiry=Product |
| 5 | **restore** | to-infinitive | the nadhar *not said here* | the ring |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent ring=Theme |

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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:** «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.

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