--- title: Nor had he more success to the east or west, so that, being a keen s… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Nor had he more success to the east or west, so that, being a keen sportsman, and determined not to go home empty-handed, he forgot all about his promise, and turned to the north. Who acts: Nor, king. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, with it --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/106/) [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 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/) / 106 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 106 Nor had he more success to the east or west, so that, being a keen sportsman, and determined not to go home empty-handed, he forgot all about his promise, and turned to the north. **Who acts:** Nor, king · **What happens:** have, be, determine, not go, hand, forget · **To what, where:** king, keen sportsman, promise, north This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nor, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7128:18:106 # text = Nor had he more success to the east or west, so that, being a keen sportsman, and determined not to go home empty-handed, he forgot all about his promise, and turned to the north. 1 Nor Nor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 amod _ _ 5 success success NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 east east NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 west west ADV RB _ 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 so so SCONJ IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 cop _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 keen keen ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 sportsman sportsman NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 determined determine VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 25 home home ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 empty empty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 handed hand VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 forgot forget VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 32 all all ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 33 about about ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 promise promise NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 north north NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | Nor | king | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | gerund | Nor *not said here* | a keen sportsman | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **determine** | past | | | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **not** **go** | to-infinitive | | | | | | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **hand** | participle | | | | | | | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **forget** | past | king | king's promise | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **turn** | past | king *not said here* | | | the north | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to north=Trajectory | | 8 | **promise** | | king | | | | | | nom promise «communication 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. - ← previous: [sentence 105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/105/) - next →: [sentence 107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/107/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/)