--- title: So quickly did it pass that he scarcely saw it; nevertheless a burni… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: So quickly did it pass that he scarcely saw it; nevertheless a burning desire to capture and possess the beautiful strange creature filled his breast. Who acts: mind, king, beautiful strange creature. 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/pg7128/18/108/) [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/) / 108 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 108 So quickly did it pass that he scarcely saw it; nevertheless a burning desire to capture and possess the beautiful strange creature filled his breast. **Who acts:** mind, king, beautiful strange creature · **What happens:** pass, see, burn, capture, possess, fill · **To what, where:** burning desire, mind, breast 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 (mind, king, beautiful strange creature), 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:pg7128:18:108 # text = So quickly did it pass that he scarcely saw it; nevertheless a burning desire to capture and possess the beautiful strange creature filled his breast. 1 So so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 3 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 scarcely scarcely ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 12 nevertheless nevertheless ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 burning burn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 amod _ _ 15 desire desire NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 capture capture VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 acl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 possess possess VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 21 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 22 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 creature creature NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 filled fill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 ccomp _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 breast breast NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pass** | past · do-support | mind | a burning desire | | | | quickly *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **see** | past | king | mind | | | | scarcely *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 3 | **burn** | gerund | | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **capture** | to-infinitive | mind *not said here* | a burning desire *not said here* | | | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **possess** | infinitive | mind *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **fill** | past | the beautiful strange creature | king's breast | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent breast=Patient | 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 107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/107/) - next →: [sentence 109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/109/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/)