Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 23

This was most readily promised by the nadhar, who immediately flew off to the king of the fishes, and ordered it to make inquiries and to restore the ring.

Who acts: nadhar · What happens: promise, fly off, order, make, restore · To what, where: This, nadhar, inquiries, ring

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nadhar), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 promised	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 promised	aux:pass
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 readily	advmod
4	readily	readily	ADV	_	5 promised	advmod
5	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 nadhar	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 nadhar	det
8	nadhar	nadhar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 promised	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 flew	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 flew	nsubj
11	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	12 flew	advmod
12	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 nadhar	acl:relcl
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 flew	compound:prt
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 king	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 king	det
16	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 flew	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 fishes	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 fishes	det
19	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 king	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 ordered	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 ordered	cc
22	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 promised	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 ordered	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 make	mark
25	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 ordered	xcomp
26	inquiries	inquiry	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 make	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 restore	cc
28	to	to	PART	_	29 restore	mark
29	restore	restore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 make	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 ring	det
31	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 restore	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past · passive	the nadhar	This		readily property	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	fly off	past	the nadhar			to the king of the fishes result; immediately property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to king=Result
3	order	past	the nadhar not said here		nadhar		vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Recipient clause=Topic
4	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	the nadhar not said here	inquiries			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset inquiry=Product
5	restore	to-infinitive	the nadhar not said here	the ring			vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent ring=Theme

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.

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