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title: The reed floated on the water for many miles, and was at last picked… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The reed floated on the water for many miles, and was at last picked up by the prince of that country, who curiously opened it and saw the golden hair. Who acts: country. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 84

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The reed floated on the water for many miles, and was at last picked up by the prince of that country, who curiously opened it and saw the golden hair.

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**Who acts:** country · **What happens:** float, pick up, be, open, see · **To what, where:** reed, water, golden hair

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (country), 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:pg7128:16:84
# text = The reed floated on the water for many miles, and was at last picked up by the prince of that country, who curiously opened it and saw the golden hair.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	reed	reed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	floated	float	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
14	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
15	picked	pick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
25	curiously	curiously	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	parataxis	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **float** | participle |  | the reed *not said here* |  | the water |  | for many miles | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on water=Trajectory |
| 2 | **pick up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | at the last picked prince; of that country | tree rules |
| 4 | **open** | past | that country | reed |  |  |  | curiously *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |
| 5 | **see** | past | that country *not said here* | the golden hair |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hair=Stimulus |

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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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