--- title: But Laili had become once more a hideous old woman, with a long, lon… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: But Laili had become once more a hideous old woman, with a long, long nose, and teeth like tusks; just such an old woman, excepting her teeth, as she had been when she came out of the Rohu fish; and she lived in the jungle, and neither ate nor drank, and she kept on saying, "Majnun, Majnun; I want M --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/12/94/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Indian Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/) / [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/12/) / 94 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 94 But Laili had become once more a hideous old woman, with a long, long nose, and teeth like tusks; just such an old woman, excepting her teeth, as she had been when she came out of the Rohu fish; and she lived in the jungle, and neither ate nor drank, and she kept on saying, "Majnun, Majnun; I want Majnun." **Who acts:** Laili, old woman · **What happens:** become, except, be, live, eat, drink · **To what, where:** hideous old woman, teeth, jungle, Majnun · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Laili, old woman), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7128:12:94 # text = But Laili had become once more a hideous old woman, with a long, long nose, and teeth like tusks; just such an old woman, excepting her teeth, as she had been when she came out of the Rohu fish; and she lived in the jungle, and neither ate nor drank, and she kept on saying, "Majnun, Majnun; I want Majnun." 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 Laili Laili PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 become become VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 6 advmod _ _ 6 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 10 advmod _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 hideous hideous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 14 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 16 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 21 like like ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 tusks tusk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 24 just just ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 25 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 28 det:predet _ _ 26 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 excepting except VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 acl _ _ 31 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 34 as as SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 35 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 36 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 37 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 40 cop _ _ 38 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 40 advmod _ _ 39 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 parataxis _ _ 41 out out ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 Rohu Rohu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 compound _ _ 45 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ; ; PUNCT : _ 49 punct _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 48 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 nsubj _ _ 49 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 conj _ _ 50 in in ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 jungle jungle NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 54 and and CCONJ CC _ 56 cc _ _ 55 neither neither ADV RB _ 56 advmod _ _ 56 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 49 conj _ _ 57 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 58 cc _ _ 58 drank drink VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 56 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 59 , , PUNCT , _ 62 punct _ _ 60 and and CCONJ CC _ 62 cc _ _ 61 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 62 nsubj _ _ 62 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 56 conj _ _ 63 on on SCONJ IN _ 64 mark _ _ 64 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 62 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 65 , , PUNCT , _ 67 punct _ _ 66 " " PUNCT `` _ 67 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 67 Majnun Majnun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 64 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 68 , , PUNCT , _ 69 punct _ _ 69 Majnun Majnun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 67 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 70 ; ; PUNCT : _ 72 punct _ _ 71 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 72 nsubj _ _ 72 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 49 conj _ _ 73 Majnun Majnun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 72 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 74 . . PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 75 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **become** | past · perfect | Laili | a hideous old woman and a long long nose and teeth like tusks | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **except** | gerund | such old woman *not said here* | Laili's teeth | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | past · perfect | Laili | | | | | out the Rohu fish; come *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **live** | past | Laili | | | the jungle | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in jungle=Location | | 5 | **eat** | past | Laili *not said here* | | | | | neither *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **drink** | past | Laili *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **keep** | past | Laili | | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Laili *not said here* | Majnun and Majnun | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent majnun=Topic | | 9 | **want** *in a quote* | present | Laili | Majnun | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot majnun=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. - ← previous: [sentence 93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/12/93/) - next →: [sentence 95](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/12/95/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/12/)