--- title: But the white hind only laughed cruelly when she saw the fourteen ey… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: But the white hind only laughed cruelly when she saw the fourteen eyes, and threading them as a necklace, flung it round her mother's neck, saying, "Wear that, little mother, as a keepsake, whilst I am away in the King's palace." Who acts: white hind, hind. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (white hind, hind), 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:pg7128:18:119 # text = But the white hind only laughed cruelly when she saw the fourteen eyes, and threading them as a necklace, flung it round her mother's neck, saying, "Wear that, little mother, as a keepsake, whilst I am away in the King's palace." 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 hind hind NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 only only ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 cruelly cruelly ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 advmod _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 fourteen fourteen ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 16 threading thread VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ _ 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 as as ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 necklace necklace NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 22 flung fling VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 round round ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 25 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 27 's 's PART POS _ 26 case _ _ 28 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 Wear wear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 ccomp _ _ 34 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 as as ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 keepsake keepsake NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 43 whilst whilst SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 44 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 45 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 cop _ _ 46 away away ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 47 in in ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 51 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 50 's 's PART POS _ 49 case _ _ 51 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 53 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **laugh** | past | the white hind | | | | | cruelly *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **see** | past | hind | the fourteen eyes | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus | | 3 | **thread** | gerund | | eyes *= eye* | | | | as a necklace | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 4 | **fling** | past | the white hind *not said here* | necklace | | | | round hind's mother's neck | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the white hind *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **wear** *in a quote* | infinitive | | that | | | | as a keepsake; little mother *obl* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent that=Source | | 7 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the white hind *= hind* | | | the King's palace | | away *property* | tree rules | 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 118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/118/) - next →: [sentence 120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/120/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/)