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title: During the minute or so that he was performing these ablutions, the… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: During the minute or so that he was performing these ablutions, the green grass under the cover of the saucepan turned quite yellow. Who acts: prince, green grass. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 69

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During the minute or so that he was performing these ablutions, the green grass under the cover of the saucepan turned quite yellow.

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**Who acts:** prince, green grass · **What happens:** perform, turn · **To what, where:** ablutions

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, green grass), 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:pg7128:28:69
# text = During the minute or so that he was performing these ablutions, the green grass under the cover of the saucepan turned quite yellow.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
5	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	9	mark	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	fixed	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	performing	perform	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
10	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	ablutions	ablution	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
16	under	under	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	cover	cover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	saucepan	saucepan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perform** | past · progressive | prince | this ablutions |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ablution=Theme |
| 2 | **turn** | past | the green grass under the cover of the saucepan |  |  |  | minute | yellow *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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