Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 81

He informed his wife of his intention, and ordered her to manage somehow or other for the old people during the few months that he would be absent.

Who acts: king · What happens: inform, order, manage, be, intend · To what, where: wife, measure

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 (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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 informed	nsubj
2	informed	inform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 wife	nmod:poss
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 informed	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 intention	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 intention	nmod:poss
7	intention	intention	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wife	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ordered	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 ordered	cc
10	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 informed	parataxis
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 ordered	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 manage	mark
13	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 ordered	xcomp
14	somehow	somehow	ADV	_	13 manage	advmod
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 other	cc
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 somehow	conj
17	for	for	ADP	_	20 people	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 people	det
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 people	amod
20	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 manage	obl
21	during	during	ADP	_	24 months	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 months	det
23	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 months	amod
24	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 manage	obl
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 absent	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 absent	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 absent	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 absent	cop
29	absent	absent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 manage	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 informed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	inform speech: other	past	king	king's wife of king's intention			vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient
2	order	past		measure			vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	manage not said to happen	to-infinitive			month	for the old people; somehow property	vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	would	king			absent property	tree rules
5	intend		king				nom intention «cognition transitive»: 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.

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