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title: At the sight of her extreme beauty, Majnun fell backwards fainting o… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At the sight of her extreme beauty, Majnun fell backwards fainting on the floor. Who acts: Majnun. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 23

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At the sight of her extreme beauty, Majnun fell backwards fainting on the floor.

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**Who acts:** Majnun · **What happens:** fall, faint, sight · **To what, where:** sight, floor, extreme beauty

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Majnun), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg7128:13:23
# text = At the sight of her extreme beauty, Majnun fell backwards fainting on the floor.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	extreme	extreme	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	Majnun	Majnun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	backwards	backwards	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	fainting	faint	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	xcomp	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | Majnun |  |  | the sight of Laili's extreme beauty |  | backwards *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **faint** | gerund | Majnun *not said here* |  |  | the floor |  |  | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **sight** |  |  | Laili's extreme beauty |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**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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