--- title: So Raja Rasalu was comforted, and began to make ready for fortune. — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: So Raja Rasalu was comforted, and began to make ready for fortune. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, 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/pg7128/20/103/) [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 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/) / 103 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 103 So Raja Rasalu was comforted, and began to make ready for fortune. **What happens:** comfort, begin, make · **To what, where:** Raja This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg7128:20:103 # text = So Raja Rasalu was comforted, and began to make ready for fortune. 1 So so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 Raja Raja PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 Rasalu Rasalu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 flat _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 comforted comfort VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 11 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **comfort** | past · passive | | Raja | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 2 | **begin** | past | | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | | | | | | ready *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | 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 102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/102/) - next →: [sentence 104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/104/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/)