--- title: They stole over towards him, intending to kill him, like the others… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: They stole over towards him, intending to kill him, like the others who had been before him: but he was ready for them. Who acts: Shahmars, others, prince. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/49/) [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/) / 49 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 49 They stole over towards him, intending to kill him, like the others who had been before him: but he was ready for them. **Who acts:** Shahmars, others, prince · **What happens:** steal over, intend, kill, be · **To what, where:** prince 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 (Shahmars, others, prince), 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:pg7128:18:49 # text = They stole over towards him, intending to kill him, like the others who had been before him: but he was ready for them. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 stole steal VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 over over ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 towards towards ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 intending intend VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 like like ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 15 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 16 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 17 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 19 cop _ _ 18 before before ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 : : PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **steal over** | past | Shahmars *= shahmar* | | | | | towards prince; over *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **intend** | gerund | Shahmars *= shahmar* *not said here* | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **kill** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Shahmars *= shahmar* *not said here* | prince | | | | like the others | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 4 | **is** | past · perfect | the others | | | | before prince | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | past | prince | | | | | for Shahmars *= shahmar*; ready *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 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/48/) - next →: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/50/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/)