--- title: Now, Raja Sarkap, seeing Rasalu's confident bearing, began to be afr… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Now, Raja Sarkap, seeing Rasalu's confident bearing, began to be afraid, and ordered all the women of his palace to come forth in their gayest attire and stand before Rasalu, so as to distract his attention from the game. Who acts: Raja, Rasalu. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, D --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/21/80/) [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 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/21/) / 80 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 80 Now, Raja Sarkap, seeing Rasalu's confident bearing, began to be afraid, and ordered all the women of his palace to come forth in their gayest attire and stand before Rasalu, so as to distract his attention from the game. **Who acts:** Raja, Rasalu · **What happens:** see, begin, be, order, come, stand · **To what, where:** women, gayest attire, Rasalu, attention, game This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Raja, Rasalu), 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:pg7128:21:80 # text = Now, Raja Sarkap, seeing Rasalu's confident bearing, began to be afraid, and ordered all the women of his palace to come forth in their gayest attire and stand before Rasalu, so as to distract his attention from the game. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 12 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 Raja Raja PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 4 Sarkap Sarkap PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 6 seeing see VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 amod _ _ 7 Rasalu Rasalu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 confident confident ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 bearing bearing NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 12 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 14 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 15 cop _ _ 15 afraid afraid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 ordered order VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 19 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 21 det:predet _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 27 forth forth ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 30 gayest gay ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 31 amod _ _ 31 attire attire NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ _ 34 before before ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 Rasalu Rasalu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 so so ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 38 as as SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 distract distract VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 41 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 attention attention NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 43 from from ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | gerund | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **begin** | past | Raja | | | | now | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | Raja *not said here* | | | | | afraid *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **order** | past | Raja *not said here* | | all women of Rasalu's palace | | | | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **come** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Raja *not said here* | | | arms's gayest attire | | forth *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in attire=Location | | 6 | **stand** | infinitive | Raja *not said here* | | | Rasalu | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before rasalu=Location | | 7 | **distract** | to-infinitive | | Rasalu's attention | | the game | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus attention=Experiencer | | 8 | **attend** | | Rasalu | | | | | | nom attention «cognition 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 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/21/79/) - next →: [sentence 81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/21/81/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/21/)