Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 29

So the sixty-nine maidens mixed a hundred-weight of millet seed with a hundred-weight of sand, and giving it to Rasalu, bade him separate the seed from the sand.

Who acts: nine maidens · What happens: mix, give, separate · To what, where: hundred weight, weight, Rasalu, bade

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nine maidens), 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	_	7 mixed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 maidens	det
3	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 nine	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 sixty	punct
5	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 maidens	nummod
6	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 mixed	nsubj
7	mixed	mix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 weight	det
9	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 weight	nummod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 hundred	punct
11	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mixed	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 seed	case
13	millet	millet	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 seed	compound
14	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 weight	nmod
15	with	with	ADP	_	19 weight	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 weight	det
17	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 weight	nummod
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 hundred	punct
19	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mixed	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 sand	case
21	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 weight	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 giving	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 giving	cc
24	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 mixed	advcl
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 giving	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 Rasalu	case
27	Rasalu	Rasalu	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 giving	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 separate	punct
29	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 separate	obl
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 bade	obj
31	separate	separate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 mixed	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 seed	det
33	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 separate	obj
34	from	from	ADP	_	36 sand	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 sand	det
36	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 separate	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 mixed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	mix	past	the nine maidens	a hundred weight of millet seed		with a hundred weight of sand	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent weight=Patient with weight=Co-Patient
2	give	gerund	the nine maidens not said here	weight	Rasalu		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to rasalu=Recipient
3	separate	present	the nine maidens not said here	bade		from the sand	vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent seed=Patient from sand=Co-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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