Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 32

Nevertheless, the money-lender determined to have the conch by hook or by crook, and as he was villain enough not to stick at trifles, he waited for a favourable opportunity and stole the conch.

Who acts: lender · What happens: have, be, not stick, wait, steal · To what, where: conch, trifles

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lender), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	_	7 determined	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nevertheless	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lender	det
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lender	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 money	punct
6	lender	lender	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 determined	nsubj
7	determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 have	mark
9	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 determined	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 conch	det
11	conch	conch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 have	obj
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 hook	case
13	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 have	obl
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 crook	cc
15	by	by	ADP	_	16 crook	case
16	crook	crook	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hook	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 villain	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 villain	cc
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 villain	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 villain	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 villain	cop
22	villain	villain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 determined	conj
23	enough	enough	ADV	_	22 villain	advmod
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 stick	advmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 stick	mark
26	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 villain	advcl
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 trifles	case
28	trifles	trifle	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 stick	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 waited	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 waited	nsubj
31	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 determined	parataxis
32	for	for	ADP	_	35 opportunity	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 opportunity	det
34	favourable	favourable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 opportunity	amod
35	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 waited	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 stole	cc
37	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 waited	conj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 conch	det
39	conch	conch	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 stole	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 determined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	to-infinitive		the conch		by hook or crook	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conch=Patient
2	is	past	lender			enough, villain property	tree rules
3	not stick	to-infinitive	lender not said here		trifles		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme at trifle=Destination
4	wait	past	lender			for a favourable opportunity	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	steal	past	lender not said here	the conch			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location conch=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.

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