--- title: And the other did not see that he was trying to outwit him, and agre… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And the other did not see that he was trying to outwit him, and agreed. Who acts: other, crab. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/114/) [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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/) / 114 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 114 And the other did not see that he was trying to outwit him, and agreed. **Who acts:** other, crab · **What happens:** not see, try, outwit, agree · **To what, where:** crab This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other, crab), 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:pg7128:11:114 # text = And the other did not see that he was trying to outwit him, and agreed. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 nsubj _ _ 4 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 that that SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 trying try VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 outwit outwit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 agreed agree VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **see** | past · do-support | the other | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **try** | past · progressive | crab | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **outwit** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | crab *not said here* | crab | | | | | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme | | 4 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | the other *not said here* | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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. - ← previous: [sentence 113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/113/) - next →: [sentence 115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/115/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/)