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title: Coming by chance past the palace where the white hind lived in wicke… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Coming by chance past the palace where the white hind lived in wicked splendour and magnificence, he saw some pigeons fluttering round the white marble turrets, and, taking good aim, shot one dead. Who acts: hind, white hind, pigeons. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With M
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 5

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Coming by chance past the palace where the white hind lived in wicked splendour and magnificence, he saw some pigeons fluttering round the white marble turrets, and, taking good aim, shot one dead.

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**Who acts:** hind, white hind, pigeons · **What happens:** come, live, see, flutter, take, shoot · **To what, where:** wicked splendour, pigeons, good aim, one

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hind, white hind, pigeons), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg7128:19:5
# text = Coming by chance past the palace where the white hind lived in wicked splendour and magnificence, he saw some pigeons fluttering round the white marble turrets, and, taking good aim, shot one dead.
1	Coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	past	past	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	11	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	hind	hind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	splendour	splendour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	magnificence	magnificence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	fluttering	flutter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
23	round	round	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	turrets	turret	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	_
32	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	aim	aim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	shot	shoot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
36	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	obj	_	_
37	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | gerund | hind *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by chance past the palace | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by chance=Location |
| 2 | **live** | past | the white hind |  |  | wicked splendour and magnificence |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in splendour=Location |
| 3 | **see** | past | hind | some pigeons |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pigeon=Stimulus |
| 4 | **flutter** | gerund | some pigeons *not said here* |  |  |  |  | round the white marble turrets | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **take** | gerund | hind *not said here* | good aim |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aim=Theme |
| 6 | **shoot** | past | hind *not said here* | one |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |

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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.

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**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.

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