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title: Then she put on her clothes, rolled up her hair, and came down to wh… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she put on her clothes, rolled up her hair, and came down to where the seemingly poor common man was lying singing. " Who acts: daughter, clothes, poor common man. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 93

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Then she put on her clothes, rolled up her hair, and came down to where the seemingly poor common man was lying singing. "

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**Who acts:** daughter, clothes, poor common man · **What happens:** put, roll up, come down, lie, sing · **To what, where:** clothes, hair

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, clothes, poor common man), 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:pg7128:23:93
# text = Then she put on her clothes, rolled up her hair, and came down to where the seemingly poor common man was lying singing. "
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	rolled	roll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	down	down	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
17	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	seemingly	seemingly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
25	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | daughter |  |  | daughter's clothes | then |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on clothes=Destination |
| 2 | **roll up** | participle | daughter's clothes *not said here* | daughter's hair |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Agent |
| 3 | **come down** | past | daughter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **lie** | past · progressive | the poor common man |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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