--- title: The old man, looking half amused and half angry, pushed back the kni… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The old man, looking half amused and half angry, pushed back the knife, muttering something to the effect that his friend was either a fool himself or else trying to play the fool with him. Who acts: old man, friend. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/25/132/) [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 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/25/) / 132 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 132 The old man, looking half amused and half angry, pushed back the knife, muttering something to the effect that his friend was either a fool himself or else trying to play the fool with him. **Who acts:** old man, friend · **What happens:** look, amuse, push, mutter, be, try · **To what, where:** half, knife, something, effect, fool This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, friend), 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:pg7128:25:132 # text = The old man, looking half amused and half angry, pushed back the knife, muttering something to the effect that his friend was either a fool himself or else trying to play the fool with him. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 acl _ _ 6 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 5 obj _ _ 7 amused amuse VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 xcomp _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 half half ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 10 advmod _ _ 10 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 pushed push VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl:relcl _ _ 13 back back ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 knife knife NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 muttering mutter VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 advcl _ _ 18 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 17 obj _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 effect effect NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 that that SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 26 either either CCONJ CC _ 28 cc:preconj _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 fool fool NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 29 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 28 nmod _ _ 30 or or CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 else else ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 trying try VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 conj _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 fool fool NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | gerund | the old man *not said here* | half | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **amuse** | participle | the old man *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **push** | participle | the old man *not said here* | the knife | | | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **mutter** *speech: assert* | gerund | the old man *not said here* | something | the effect | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent something=Topic to effect=Recipient | | 5 | **is a** | past | Man's friend | a fool | | | | Man *nmod* | tree rules | | 6 | **try** | gerund | Man's friend *not said here* | | | | | else *property* | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 7 | **play** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Man's friend *not said here* | the fool | | | | with Man | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent fool=Theme with he=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 131](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/25/131/) - next →: [sentence 133](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/25/133/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/25/)