Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 83

So he married the princess, and they lived very happily for several years, until one morning the princess, while arranging her toilet, put the loose hairs into a hollow bit of reed and threw them into the river that flowed along under the window.

Who acts: house, dishes, river · What happens: marry, live, arrange, put, throw, flow · To what, where: princess, toilet, loose hairs, hollow bit, dishes, river

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (house, dishes, river), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 married	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 married	nsubj
3	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 princess	det
5	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 married	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lived	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 lived	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 lived	nsubj
9	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 married	conj
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 happily	advmod
11	happily	happily	ADV	_	9 lived	advmod
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 years	case
13	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 years	amod
14	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lived	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 morning	punct
16	until	until	ADP	_	18 morning	case
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 morning	nummod
18	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lived	obl:unmarked
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 princess	det
20	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 morning	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 arranging	punct
22	while	while	SCONJ	_	23 arranging	mark
23	arranging	arrange	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 lived	advcl
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 toilet	nmod:poss
25	toilet	toilet	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 arranging	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 put	punct
27	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 arranging	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 hairs	det
29	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 hairs	amod
30	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 put	obj
31	into	into	ADP	_	34 bit	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 bit	det
33	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 bit	amod
34	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 put	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 reed	case
36	reed	reed	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 bit	nmod
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 threw	cc
38	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 married	conj
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 threw	obj
40	into	into	ADP	_	42 river	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 river	det
42	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 threw	obl
43	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 flowed	nsubj
44	flowed	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 river	acl:relcl
45	along	along	ADV	_	44 flowed	advmod
46	under	under	ADP	_	48 window	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 window	det
48	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 flowed	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 married	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	past	house	the princess				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient
2	live	past	dishes = dish			morning; year	happily property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	arrange	gerund	dishes = dish not said here	princess's toilet				vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toilet=Product
4	put	infinitive	dishes = dish not said here	the loose hairs	a hollow bit of reed			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hair=Goal
5	throw	past	house not said here	dishes = dish			into the river result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer they=Theme into river=Result
6	flow	past	the river		the window		along property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under window=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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