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title: Nevertheless, the money-lender determined to have the conch by hook… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Nevertheless, the money-lender determined to have the conch by hook or by crook, and as he was villain enough not to stick at trifles, he waited for a favourable opportunity and stole the conch. Who acts: lender. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 32

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Nevertheless, the money-lender determined to have the conch by hook or by crook, and as he was villain enough not to stick at trifles, he waited for a favourable opportunity and stole the conch.

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**Who acts:** lender · **What happens:** have, be, not stick, wait, steal · **To what, where:** conch, trifles

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lender), 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:pg7128:22:32
# text = Nevertheless, the money-lender determined to have the conch by hook or by crook, and as he was villain enough not to stick at trifles, he waited for a favourable opportunity and stole the conch.
1	Nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	lender	lender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	determined	determined	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	conch	conch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	crook	crook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	villain	villain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
23	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	stick	stick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	trifles	trifle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	favourable	favourable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	stole	steal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	conch	conch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | to-infinitive |  | the conch |  |  |  | by hook or crook | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conch=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | lender |  |  |  |  | enough, villain *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **stick** | to-infinitive | lender *not said here* |  |  | trifles |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme at trifle=Destination |
| 4 | **wait** | past | lender |  |  |  |  | for a favourable opportunity | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **steal** | past | lender *not said here* | the conch |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location conch=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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