--- title: On the morrow the king repeated to his vizier what his wife had told… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: On the morrow the king repeated to his vizier what his wife had told him, and bade him investigate the matter, and be ready with a satisfactory answer within six months, on pain of death. Who acts: king. 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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. **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:pg7128:25:114 # text = On the morrow the king repeated to his vizier what his wife had told him, and bade him investigate the matter, and be ready with a satisfactory answer within six months, on pain of death. 1 On on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 morrow morrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 6 repeated repeat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 vizier vizier NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 14 obj _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl:relcl _ _ 15 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 bade bade NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 investigate investigate VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 matter matter NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 26 cop _ _ 26 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 conj _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 satisfactory satisfactory ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 31 within within ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 33 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 on on ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **repeat** | participle | | the king and bade *not said here* | | | | to King's vizier | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive | | King's wife | King | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **investigate** | present | the king and bade | the matter | | the morrow | month | on pain of death | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent matter=Theme | | 4 | **is** | infinitive | the king and bade *not said here* | | | | | with a satisfactory answer; ready *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **pain** | | | death | | | | | nom pain «state transitive»: of=patient | 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 113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/25/113/) - next →: [sentence 115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/25/115/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/25/)