--- title: Nearer and nearer he advanced, till, just as he thought to lay hold… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Nearer and nearer he advanced, till, just as he thought to lay hold of the beautiful strange creature, it gave one mighty bound, leapt clean over the King's head, and fled towards the mountains. Who acts: king, creature. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 1 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/110/) [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/) / 110 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 110 Nearer and nearer he advanced, till, just as he thought to lay hold of the beautiful strange creature, it gave one mighty bound, leapt clean over the King's head, and fled towards the mountains. **Who acts:** king, creature · **What happens:** advance, think, lay, give, leapt, flee · **To what, where:** hold, one mighty bound, head, mountains, beautiful strange creature 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 (king, 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:pg7128:18:110 # text = Nearer and nearer he advanced, till, just as he thought to lay hold of the beautiful strange creature, it gave one mighty bound, leapt clean over the King's head, and fled towards the mountains. 1 Nearer near ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 advmod _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 nearer near ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 1 conj _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 advanced advance VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 till till SCONJ IN _ 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 just just ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 10 as as SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 lay lay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 hold hold NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 18 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 19 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 creature creature NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 24 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 25 mighty mighty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 bound bound NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 leapt leapt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 29 clean clean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 xcomp _ _ 30 over over ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 33 's 's PART POS _ 32 case _ _ 34 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 fled flee VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 38 towards towards ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 mountains mountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **advance** | past | king | | | | | | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | king | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **lay** | to-infinitive | king *not said here* | hold of the beautiful strange creature | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result | | 4 | **give** | past | creature | one mighty bound | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bound=Theme | | 5 | **leapt** | infinitive | creature *not said here* | | | the King's head | | clean *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **flee** | past | king *not said here* | | | the mountains | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme towards mountain=Initial\_Location | | 7 | **hold** | | | the beautiful strange creature | | | | | nom hold «act transitive»: of=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 109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/109/) - next →: [sentence 111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/111/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/)