--- title: His Majesty came, and seeing the fakir so solemn and earnest in his… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: His Majesty came, and seeing the fakir so solemn and earnest in his devotions, he was afraid to rouse his anger, lest peradventure the displeasure of Heaven should descend on him, and so he placed his hands together in the attitude of a supplicant, and asked, "How did you get my daughter's necklace? --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/28/114/) [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 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/28/) / 114 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 114 His Majesty came, and seeing the fakir so solemn and earnest in his devotions, he was afraid to rouse his anger, lest peradventure the displeasure of Heaven should descend on him, and so he placed his hands together in the attitude of a supplicant, and asked, "How did you get my daughter's necklace?" **Who acts:** Majesty, fakir, displeasure, you, king · **What happens:** come, see, be, rouse, descend, place · **To what, where:** fakir, anger, hands, attitude, necklace, Heaven · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Majesty, fakir, displeasure, you), 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:pg7128:28:114 # text = His Majesty came, and seeing the fakir so solemn and earnest in his devotions, he was afraid to rouse his anger, lest peradventure the displeasure of Heaven should descend on him, and so he placed his hands together in the attitude of a supplicant, and asked, "How did you get my daughter's necklace?" 1 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 Majesty Majesty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 6 seeing see VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 csubj _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 fakir fakir NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 so so ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 solemn solemn ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 earnest earn ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 advcl _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 devotions devotion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 afraid afraid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 rouse rouse VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 anger anger NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 25 lest lest SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 26 peradventure peradventure ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 displeasure displeasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 Heaven Heaven PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 31 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 descend descend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 33 on on ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 37 so so ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 38 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 placed place VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 40 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obj _ _ 42 together together ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 43 in in ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 attitude attitude NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 supplicant supplicant NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 51 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 53 " " PUNCT `` _ 57 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 54 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 57 advmod _ _ 55 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 57 aux _ _ 56 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 57 nsubj _ _ 57 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 51 ccomp _ _ 58 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 59 nmod:poss _ _ 59 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 60 's 's PART POS _ 59 case _ _ 61 necklace necklace NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 62 ? ? PUNCT . _ 57 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 63 " " PUNCT '' _ 57 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | king's Majesty | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **see** | gerund | | the fakir | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fakir=Stimulus | | 3 | **is** | past | fakir | | | | | afraid *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **rouse** | to-infinitive | fakir *not said here* | fakir's anger | | | | | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anger=Patient | | 5 | **descend** | should | the displeasure of Heaven | | | | | on fakir | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **place** | past | fakir | fakir's hands | | the attitude of a supplicant | | together *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in attitude=Destination | | 7 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **get** *in a quote* | past · do-support | you | my daughter's necklace | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer necklace=Stimulus | | 9 | **devote** | | king | | | | | | nom devotion «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | | 10 | **anger** | | fakir | | | | | | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent | | 11 | **displease** | | | Heaven | | | | | nom displeasure «feeling 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/pg7128/28/113/) - next →: [sentence 115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/28/115/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/28/)