Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 80

Now, Raja Sarkap, seeing Rasalu's confident bearing, began to be afraid, and ordered all the women of his palace to come forth in their gayest attire and stand before Rasalu, so as to distract his attention from the game.

Who acts: Raja, Rasalu · What happens: see, begin, be, order, come, stand · To what, where: women, gayest attire, Rasalu, attention, game

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Raja, Rasalu), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 began	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	Raja	Raja	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 began	nsubj
4	Sarkap	Sarkap	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Raja	flat
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bearing	punct
6	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 bearing	amod
7	Rasalu	Rasalu	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 bearing	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Rasalu	case
9	confident	confident	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bearing	amod
10	bearing	bearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Raja	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Raja	punct
12	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	PART	_	15 afraid	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 afraid	cop
15	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 began	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ordered	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 ordered	cc
18	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 began	advcl
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 women	det:predet
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 women	det
21	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 ordered	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 palace	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 palace	nmod:poss
24	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 women	nmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 come	mark
26	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 ordered	xcomp
27	forth	forth	ADV	_	26 come	advmod
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 attire	case
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 attire	nmod:poss
30	gayest	gay	ADJ	Degree=Sup	31 attire	amod
31	attire	attire	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 come	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 stand	cc
33	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 come	conj
34	before	before	ADP	_	35 Rasalu	case
35	Rasalu	Rasalu	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 stand	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 distract	punct
37	so	so	ADV	_	40 distract	advmod
38	as	as	SCONJ	_	40 distract	mark
39	to	to	PART	_	40 distract	mark
40	distract	distract	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 began	parataxis
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 attention	nmod:poss
42	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 distract	obj
43	from	from	ADP	_	45 game	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 game	det
45	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 distract	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	gerund							vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	begin	past	Raja				now		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	is	to-infinitive	Raja not said here					afraid property	tree rules
4	order	past	Raja not said here		all women of Rasalu's palace				vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient clause=Topic
5	come not said to happen	to-infinitive	Raja not said here			arms's gayest attire		forth property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in attire=Location
6	stand	infinitive	Raja not said here			Rasalu			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before rasalu=Location
7	distract	to-infinitive		Rasalu's attention		the game			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus attention=Experiencer
8	attend		Rasalu						nom attention «cognition intransitive»: 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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