Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 58

In a short time the girl came out of the bamboo fiddle, and began to dress her hair.

Who acts: girl · What happens: come out, begin, dress · To what, where: bamboo fiddle, hair

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 girl	det
6	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	out	out	ADP	_	12 fiddle	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 fiddle	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fiddle	det
11	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fiddle	compound
12	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 began	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 began	cc
15	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 dress	mark
17	dress	dress	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 began	xcomp
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 hair	nmod:poss
19	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dress	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	come out	past	the girl	the bamboo fiddle	time	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient fiddle=Result
2	begin	past	the girl not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	dress	to-infinitive	the girl not said here	girl's hair		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=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.

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