--- title: So he married the princess, and they lived very happily for several… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: So he married the princess, and they lived very happily for several years, until one morning the princess, while arranging her toilet, put the loose hairs into a hollow bit of reed and threw them into the river that flowed along under the window. Who acts: house, dishes, river. 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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 (house, dishes, river), 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:pg7128:16:83 # text = So he married the princess, and they lived very happily for several years, until one morning the princess, while arranging her toilet, put the loose hairs into a hollow bit of reed and threw them into the river that flowed along under the window. 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 married marry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 10 very very ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 happily happily ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 until until ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl:unmarked _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 while while SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 23 arranging arrange VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 24 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 toilet toilet NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 advcl _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 loose loose ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 hairs hair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 31 into into ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 hollow hollow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 reed reed NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 threw throw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 39 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 into into ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 43 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 44 nsubj _ _ 44 flowed flow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 acl:relcl _ _ 45 along along ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 46 under under ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **marry** | past | house | the princess | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient | | 2 | **live** | past | dishes *= dish* | | | | morning; year | happily *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **arrange** | gerund | dishes *= dish* *not said here* | princess's toilet | | | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toilet=Product | | 4 | **put** | infinitive | dishes *= dish* *not said here* | the loose hairs | | a hollow bit of reed | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hair=Goal | | 5 | **throw** | past | house *not said here* | dishes *= dish* | | | | into the river *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer they=Theme into river=Result | | 6 | **flow** | past | the river | | | the window | | along *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under window=Location | 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 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/16/82/) - next →: [sentence 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/16/84/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/16/)