--- title: He looked round, hoping to see the reality; but seeing no person, he… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: He looked round, hoping to see the reality; but seeing no person, he drank the water, and put out his hand to take some more. 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 pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/27/66/) [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/) / 66 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 66 He looked round, hoping to see the reality; but seeing no person, he drank the water, and put out his hand to take some more. **Who acts:** Prince · **What happens:** look, hope, see, drink, put out, take · **To what, where:** reality, person, water, hand, more 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:pg7128:27:66 # text = He looked round, hoping to see the reality; but seeing no person, he drank the water, and put out his hand to take some more. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 round round ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 hoping hope VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 reality reality NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 12 seeing see VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ _ 13 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 14 det _ _ 14 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 drank drink VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 conj _ _ 23 out out ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 24 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 advcl _ _ 28 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 29 det _ _ 29 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | past | Prince | | | | | round *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **hope** | gerund | Prince *not said here* | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 3 | **see** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Prince *not said here* | the reality | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reality=Stimulus | | 4 | **see** | gerund | Prince *not said here* | no person | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer person=Stimulus | | 5 | **drink** | past | Prince | the water | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | | 6 | **put out** | participle | Prince *not said here* | Prince's hand | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal | | 7 | **take** | to-infinitive | Prince *not said here* | some more | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme | 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 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/27/65/) - next →: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/27/67/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/27/)