--- title: Report of his arrival reached the ears of the king, who came with ro… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Report of his arrival reached the ears of the king, who came with rope-tied hands and haltered neck to do him homage. Who acts: Report, king, prince. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/60/) [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 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/) / 60 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 60 Report of his arrival reached the ears of the king, who came with rope-tied hands and haltered neck to do him homage. **Who acts:** Report, king, prince · **What happens:** reach, come, tie, halter, do, report · **To what, where:** ears, neck, prince, arrival This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Report, king, prince), 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:pg7128:18:60 # text = Report of his arrival reached the ears of the king, who came with rope-tied hands and haltered neck to do him homage. 1 Report report NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 arrival arrival NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 5 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 15 rope rope NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 tied tie VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 amod _ _ 18 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 haltered halter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 21 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 24 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 homage homage NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reach** | past | Report of prince's arrival | the ears of the king | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ear=Theme | | 2 | **come** | past | the king | | | | | with tied hands | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **tie** | participle | | | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **halter** | past | the king *not said here* | neck | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **do** | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* | prince | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **report** | | | prince's arrival | | | | | nom report «communication transitive»: of=patient | | 7 | **arrive** | | prince | | | | | | nom arrival «act intransitive»: 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 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/59/) - next →: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/61/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/)