--- title: Then Laili slipped down off her horse, and she went to Majnun's dead… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then Laili slipped down off her horse, and she went to Majnun's dead body, and she cut her little finger inside her hand straight down from the top of her nail to her palm, and out of this gushed blood like healing medicine. Who acts: Laili, gushed blood. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Laili, gushed blood), 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:pg7128:13:55 # text = Then Laili slipped down off her horse, and she went to Majnun's dead body, and she cut her little finger inside her hand straight down from the top of her nail to her palm, and out of this gushed blood like healing medicine. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 Laili Laili PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 slipped slip VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 down down ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 off off ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 13 Majnun Majnun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 14 's 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 cut cut VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 21 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 inside inside ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 27 straight straight ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 down down ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 29 from from ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 nail nail NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 palm palm NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 40 out out ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 44 det _ _ 43 gushed gush VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 44 amod _ _ 44 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 45 like like SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 46 healing heal VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 44 acl _ _ 47 medicine medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **slip down** | past | Laili | | | | then | off Laili's horse | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient off horse=Co-Patient | | 2 | **go** | past | Laili | | | Majnun's dead body | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to body=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **cut** | past | Laili | Laili's little finger | | Laili's hand | | from the top of Laili's nail; to Laili's palm *result*; down *property* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2 «NP V NP.patient PP.extent PP.initial\_state PP.result»: agent=Causer finger=Patient from top=Initial\_State to palm=Result | | 4 | **gush** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **heal** | gerund | this gushed blood *not said here* | medicine | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent medicine=Patient | 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 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/13/54/) - next →: [sentence 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/13/56/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/13/)