--- title: Fortunately he looked into his hand before drinking, and there, to h… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Fortunately he looked into his hand before drinking, and there, to his great astonishment, he saw reflected whole and clear the image of a beautiful fairy. Who acts: Prince. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, with its dependency tree and the p --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/27/65/) [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 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/27/) / 65 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 65 Fortunately he looked into his hand before drinking, and there, to his great astonishment, he saw reflected whole and clear the image of a beautiful fairy. **Who acts:** Prince · **What happens:** look, drink, see, reflect, clear, astonish · **To what, where:** image, beautiful fairy This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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:pg7128:27:65 # text = Fortunately he looked into his hand before drinking, and there, to his great astonishment, he saw reflected whole and clear the image of a beautiful fairy. 1 Fortunately fortunately ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 into into ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 before before SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 8 drinking drink VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 astonishment astonishment NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 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 3 parataxis _ _ 20 reflected reflect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 xcomp _ _ 21 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 clear clear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 image image NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | past | Prince | | | | | into Prince's hand; fortunately *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into hand=Theme | | 2 | **drink** | gerund | Prince *not said here* | | | there | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **see** | past | Prince | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **reflect** | participle | Prince *not said here* | | | | | whole *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **clear** | infinitive | Prince *not said here* | the image of a beautiful fairy | | | | | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent image=Source | | 6 | **astonish** | | Prince | | | | | | nom astonishment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | | 7 | **image** | | | a beautiful fairy | | | | | nom image «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/27/64/) - next →: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/27/66/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/27/)