--- title: He heard her kettle-drum, but he thought, "She does not really want… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: He heard her kettle-drum, but he thought, "She does not really want me; she is only trying to see if I will go to her." Who acts: King, gardener. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/22/87/) [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 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/22/) / 87 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 87 He heard her kettle-drum, but he thought, "She does not really want me; she is only trying to see if I will go to her." **Who acts:** King, gardener · **What happens:** hear, think, not want, try, see, go · **To what, where:** kettle drum, King, gardener · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (King, gardener), 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:pg7128:22:87 # text = He heard her kettle-drum, but he thought, "She does not really want me; she is only trying to see if I will go to her." 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 4 kettle kettle NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 drum drum NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 14 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 16 really really ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 ccomp _ _ 18 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 only only ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 trying try VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 if if SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 ccomp _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | past | King | gardener's kettle drum | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer drum=Stimulus | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | King | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **not** **want** *in a quote* | present · do-support | gardener | King | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot i=Theme | | 4 | **try** *in a quote* | present · progressive | gardener | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **see** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | gardener *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 6 | **go** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | future | King | | gardener | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial\_Location | 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 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/22/86/) - next →: [sentence 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/22/88/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/22/)