Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 87

He heard her kettle-drum, but he thought, "She does not really want me; she is only trying to see if I will go to her."

Who acts: King, gardener · What happens: hear, think, not want, try, see, go · To what, where: kettle drum, King, gardener · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (King, gardener), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 drum	nmod:poss
4	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drum	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 kettle	punct
6	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heard	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 thought	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 thought	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 thought	nsubj
10	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 heard	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 want	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 want	punct
13	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 want	nsubj
14	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 want	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 want	advmod
16	really	really	ADV	_	17 want	advmod
17	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 thought	ccomp
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 want	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 trying	punct
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 trying	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 trying	aux
22	only	only	ADV	_	23 trying	advmod
23	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 heard	advcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 see	mark
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 trying	xcomp
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 go	mark
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 go	nsubj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 go	aux
29	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 see	ccomp
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 her	case
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 go	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 heard	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	hear	past	King	gardener's kettle drum		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer drum=Stimulus
2	think speech: other	past	King			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not want in a quote	present · do-support	gardener	King		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot i=Theme
4	try in a quote	present · progressive	gardener			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	see not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	gardener not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	go a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	King		gardener	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location

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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