--- title: Laili took off his turban and wound it all round herself like a sari… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Laili took off his turban and wound it all round herself like a sari (for she had no clothes at all on), and then she called King Dantal, and said to him sadly, "Why has Majnun fallen down like this? Who acts: Laili. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/13/24/) [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 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/13/) / 24 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 24 Laili took off his turban and wound it all round herself like a sari (for she had no clothes at all on), and then she called King Dantal, and said to him sadly, "Why has Majnun fallen down like this? **Who acts:** Laili · **What happens:** take off, wound, have, call, say, fall down · **To what, where:** turban, clothes, all, Rakshas · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Laili), 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:pg7128:13:24 # text = Laili took off his turban and wound it all round herself like a sari (for she had no clothes at all on), and then she called King Dantal, and said to him sadly, "Why has Majnun fallen down like this? 1 Laili Laili PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 off off ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 turban turban NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 wound wound VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 all all ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 10 round round ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 7 obl _ _ 12 like like ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 sari sari NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 15 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 19 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 20 det _ _ 20 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 18 obj _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 18 obl _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 29 advmod _ _ 28 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 30 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 Dantal Dantal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 parataxis _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obl _ _ 37 sadly sadly ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 " " PUNCT `` _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 41 advmod _ _ 41 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 42 Majnun Majnun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 43 fallen fall VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 conj _ _ 44 down down ADP RP _ 43 compound:prt _ _ 45 like like ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take off** | past | Laili | Rakshas's turban | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turban=Theme | | 2 | **wound** | infinitive | Laili *not said here* | turban | | | | round Laili; like a sari | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer | | 3 | **have** | past | Laili | no clothes | | all | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient | | 4 | **call** | past | Laili | | | | then | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | | | Rakshas | | | sadly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | | 6 | **fall down** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Laili *not said here* | | | | | like this | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=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 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/13/23/) - next →: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/13/25/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/13/)