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title: He informed his wife of his intention, and ordered her to manage som… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He informed his wife of his intention, and ordered her to manage somehow or other for the old people during the few months that he would be absent. Who acts: king. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 81

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He informed his wife of his intention, and ordered her to manage somehow or other for the old people during the few months that he would be absent.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** inform, order, manage, be, intend · **To what, where:** wife, measure

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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 (king), 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:pg7128:17:81
# text = He informed his wife of his intention, and ordered her to manage somehow or other for the old people during the few months that he would be absent.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	informed	inform	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	intention	intention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
11	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	manage	manage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
14	somehow	somehow	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
21	during	during	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	cop	_	_
29	absent	absent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **inform** *speech: other* | past | king |  | king's wife of king's intention |  |  |  | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient |
| 2 | **order** | past |  |  | measure |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **manage** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | month | for the old people; somehow *property* | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | would | king |  |  |  |  | absent *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **intend** |  | king |  |  |  |  |  | nom intention «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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