Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 69

During the minute or so that he was performing these ablutions, the green grass under the cover of the saucepan turned quite yellow.

Who acts: prince, green grass · What happens: perform, turn · To what, where: ablutions

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, green grass), 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	During	during	ADP	_	3 minute	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 minute	det
3	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 turned	obl
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 performing	cc
5	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	9 performing	mark
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 so	fixed
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 performing	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 performing	aux
9	performing	perform	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 minute	conj
10	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 ablutions	det
11	ablutions	ablution	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 performing	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 minute	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 grass	det
14	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 grass	amod
15	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 turned	nsubj
16	under	under	ADP	_	18 cover	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 cover	det
18	cover	cover	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 grass	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 saucepan	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 saucepan	det
21	saucepan	saucepan	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cover	nmod
22	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	quite	quite	ADV	_	24 yellow	advmod
24	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 turned	xcomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perform	past · progressive	prince	this ablutions					vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ablution=Theme
2	turn	past	the green grass under the cover of the saucepan				minute	yellow property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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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