Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 6

So deft was she with her fingers that she could dress her hair with oil and afterwards press the hair so skilfully that not a drop of oil remained in it.

Who acts: townspeople, deft fingers · What happens: be, dress, press, remain · To what, where: hair, drop, oil

This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (townspeople, deft fingers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	2 deft	advmod
2	deft	deft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fingers	amod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fingers	cop
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fingers	nsubj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 fingers	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 fingers	nmod:poss
7	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 dress	nsubj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 dress	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 dress	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 dress	aux
11	dress	dress	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hair	nmod:poss
13	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dress	obj
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 oil	case
15	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dress	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 press	cc
17	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	18 press	advmod
18	press	press	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 dress	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hair	det
20	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 press	obj
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 skilfully	advmod
22	skilfully	skilfully	ADV	_	18 press	advmod
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 remained	mark
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 drop	advmod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 drop	det
26	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 remained	nsubj:pass
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 oil	case
28	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 drop	nmod
29	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 press	advcl
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 remained	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 dress	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	townspeople			with townspeople's deft fingers	tree rules
2	dress	could	townspeople's deft fingers	townspeople's hair		with oil; townspeople nsubj	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
3	press	infinitive	townspeople's deft fingers not said here	the hair		afterwards, skilfully property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme
4	remain	participle · passive		a drop of oil	oil		vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute

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: «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (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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🌲 Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 6

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 6