Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 86

He had fallen desperately in love with the woman whose hair he had picked up, and refused to eat, or drink, or sleep, or move, till she was brought to him.

Who acts: prince · What happens: fall, pick up, refuse, not eat, move, bring · To what, where: love, hair, drink, woman, prince

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 (prince), 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	3 fallen	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fallen	aux
3	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	desperately	desperately	ADV	_	3 fallen	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 love	case
6	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fallen	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 woman	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 woman	det
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 picked	obl
10	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	11 hair	nmod:poss
11	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 picked	nsubj
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 picked	nsubj:pass
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 picked	aux
14	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 fallen	conj
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 picked	compound:prt
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 refused	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 refused	cc
18	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fallen	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 eat	mark
20	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 refused	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 drink	punct
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 drink	cc
23	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 refused	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sleep	punct
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 sleep	cc
26	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 refused	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 move	punct
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 move	cc
29	move	move	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 fallen	parataxis
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 brought	punct
31	till	till	SCONJ	_	34 brought	mark
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 brought	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 brought	aux:pass
34	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 move	conj
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 him	case
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 brought	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fallen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall	past · perfect	prince			love	desperately property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location
2	pick up	past · perfect · passive		hair			with the woman	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
3	refuse	past	prince not said here	drink			sleep obl	vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	not eat	to-infinitive	prince not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	move	infinitive						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
6	bring	past · passive		woman	prince			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to he=Destination

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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