--- title: But on the third night, when she found she could not make him answer… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: But on the third night, when she found she could not make him answer her, she said to him, "What a strange man you are not to answer me when I speak to you." Who acts: daughter, boy. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, with its dependency tree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/23/98/) [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 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/23/) / 98 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 98 But on the third night, when she found she could not make him answer her, she said to him, "What a strange man you are not to answer me when I speak to you." **Who acts:** daughter, boy · **What happens:** find, not make, not answer, say, not be, speak · **To what, where:** boy, daughter · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, boy), 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:pg7128:23:98 # text = But on the third night, when she found she could not make him answer her, she said to him, "What a strange man you are not to answer me when I speak to you." 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 2 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 third third ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 5 amod _ _ 5 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 8 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 answer answer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 19 ccomp _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 29 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 answer answer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 acl:relcl _ _ 33 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 when when SCONJ WRB _ 36 mark _ _ 35 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 speak speak VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 advcl _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | past | daughter | | | | night | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **not** **make** | could | daughter | boy | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **answer** *speech: assert* | infinitive | boy *not said here* | | daughter | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | daughter | | boy | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | | 5 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | boy | | | | | answer *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | daughter | | boy | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to you=Co-Agent | 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 97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/23/97/) - next →: [sentence 99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/23/99/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/23/)