Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 136

The king caused a reply to be sent to the two exiles, in which he ordered them not to return, but to send a letter to Gulizar's father, and inform him of everything.

Who acts: king · What happens: cause, send, order, not return, inform · To what, where: reply, two exiles, exiles, letter, father

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 (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caused	nsubj
3	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 reply	det
5	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caused	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	8 sent	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 sent	aux:pass
8	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 reply	acl
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 exiles	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 exiles	det
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 exiles	nummod
12	exiles	exile	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sent	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ordered	punct
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 which	case
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 ordered	obl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 ordered	nsubj
17	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sent	conj
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 ordered	obj
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 return	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 return	mark
21	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 ordered	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 send	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 send	cc
24	to	to	PART	_	25 send	mark
25	send	send	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 caused	parataxis
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 letter	det
27	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 send	obj
28	to	to	ADP	_	31 father	case
29	Gulizar	Gulizar	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 father	nmod:poss
30	's	's	PART	_	29 Gulizar	case
31	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 send	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 inform	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 inform	cc
34	inform	inform	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	25 send	conj
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 inform	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 everything	case
37	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	34 inform	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 caused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	cause	past	the king	a reply				vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition reply=Patient
2	send	to-infinitive · passive	the king not said here	a reply not said here		the two exiles		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: to exile=Destination
3	order	past	king		exiles = exile			vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
4	not return not said to happen	to-infinitive	king not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	send	to-infinitive		a letter	Gulizar's father			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent letter=Theme to father=Destination
6	inform speech: other	infinitive			letter		of everything	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient of everything=Topic

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/28/136/