Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 68

Taking off the lid, he threw it aside on the grass and then washed his hands.

Who acts: prince · What happens: take off, throw, wash · To what, where: lid, grass, hands

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22. 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	Taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 threw	advcl
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 Taking	compound:prt
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lid	det
4	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Taking	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Taking	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 threw	nsubj
7	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 threw	obj
9	aside	aside	ADV	_	7 threw	advmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 grass	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 grass	det
12	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 threw	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 washed	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 washed	advmod
15	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 threw	conj
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hands	nmod:poss
17	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 washed	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take off	gerund	prince not said here	the lid				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Theme
2	throw	past	prince	lid	the grass		aside property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme on grass=Destination
3	wash	past	prince not said here	prince's hands		then		vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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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