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title: Unfortunately her beauty caught the fleeting fancy of the God Indra. — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Unfortunately her beauty caught the fleeting fancy of the God Indra. Who acts: beauty. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Round About Nasik., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 92

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Unfortunately her beauty caught the fleeting fancy of the God Indra.

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**Who acts:** beauty · **What happens:** catch, fancy · **To what, where:** fleeting fancy, God Indra

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Round About Nasik.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beauty), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg76982:20:92
# text = Unfortunately her beauty caught the fleeting fancy of the God Indra.
1	Unfortunately	unfortunately	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	fleeting	fleeting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	fancy	fancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Indra	Indra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | past | wife's beauty | the fleeting fancy of the God Indra |  |  |  | unfortunately *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fancy=Theme |
| 2 | **fancy** |  |  | the God Indra |  |  |  |  | nom fancy «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**Text:** «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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