--- title: So the sixty-nine maidens mixed a hundred-weight of millet seed with… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: So the sixty-nine maidens mixed a hundred-weight of millet seed with a hundred-weight of sand, and giving it to Rasalu, bade him separate the seed from the sand. Who acts: nine maidens. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, with its dependency tr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/21/29/) [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 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/21/) / 29 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 29 So the sixty-nine maidens mixed a hundred-weight of millet seed with a hundred-weight of sand, and giving it to Rasalu, bade him separate the seed from the sand. **Who acts:** nine maidens · **What happens:** mix, give, separate · **To what, where:** hundred weight, weight, Rasalu, bade This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nine maidens), 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:pg7128:21:29 # text = So the sixty-nine maidens mixed a hundred-weight of millet seed with a hundred-weight of sand, and giving it to Rasalu, bade him separate the seed from the sand. 1 So so ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 3 sixty sixty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 maidens maiden NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 mixed mix VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 millet millet NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 seed seed NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 17 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 giving give VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 Rasalu Rasalu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 bade bade NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 30 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 separate separate VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 seed seed NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 from from ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mix** | past | the nine maidens | a hundred weight of millet seed | | | | with a hundred weight of sand | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent weight=Patient with weight=Co-Patient | | 2 | **give** | gerund | the nine maidens *not said here* | weight | Rasalu | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to rasalu=Recipient | | 3 | **separate** | present | the nine maidens *not said here* | bade | | | | from the sand | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent seed=Patient from sand=Co-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 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/21/28/) - next →: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/21/30/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/21/)