--- title: Then he ordered his servants to shoot the dog at dawn, but the dog h… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then he ordered his servants to shoot the dog at dawn, but the dog heard him, and said to himself, "What shall I do? Who acts: King, servants, dog. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, 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/pg7128/22/121/) [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 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/22/) / 121 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 121 Then he ordered his servants to shoot the dog at dawn, but the dog heard him, and said to himself, "What shall I do? **Who acts:** King, servants, dog · **What happens:** order, shoot, hear, say, do · **To what, where:** servants, dog, King · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, servants, dog), 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:pg7128:22:121 # text = Then he ordered his servants to shoot the dog at dawn, but the dog heard him, and said to himself, "What shall I do? 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 ordered order VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 shoot shoot VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 dawn dawn NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 17 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 28 obj _ _ 26 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **order** | past | King | King's servants | | | then | | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent servant=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **shoot** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | King's servants *not said here* | the dog | | | dawn | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme | | 3 | **hear** | past | the dog | King | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | | 4 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the dog *not said here* | | King | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **do** *in a quote* | shall | the dog *= dog* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | 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 120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/22/120/) - next →: [sentence 122](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/22/122/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/22/)