--- title: The prince next day did exactly as the princess had told him; and th… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The prince next day did exactly as the princess had told him; and the minute the hair that was stretched down the edge of the hatchet-blade touched the tree-trunk it split into two pieces. Who acts: prince next day, minute, hair. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/8/119/) [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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/8/) / 119 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 119 The prince next day did exactly as the princess had told him; and the minute the hair that was stretched down the edge of the hatchet-blade touched the tree-trunk it split into two pieces. **Who acts:** prince next day, minute, hair · **What happens:** do, tell, stretch, touch, split · **To what, where:** princess, Labam, hair, tree trunk, two pieces · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince next day, minute, hair), 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:pg7128:8:119 # text = The prince next day did exactly as the princess had told him; and the minute the hair that was stretched down the edge of the hatchet-blade touched the tree-trunk it split into two pieces. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 as as SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 10 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 12 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 minute minute NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 19 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 stretched stretch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 acl:relcl _ _ 22 down down ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 edge edge NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 27 hatchet hatchet NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 blade blade NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 30 touched touch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 32 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 trunk trunk NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 split split VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 acl:relcl _ _ 37 into into ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 39 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | the prince next day | | | | | exactly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive | | the princess | Labam | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic | | 3 | **stretch** | past · passive | | the hair | | | | down the edge of the hatchet blade | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **touch** | past | the minute | the tree trunk | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme trunk=Co-Theme | | 5 | **split** | past | hair | the tree trunk *not said here* | | | | into two pieces *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent trunk=Patient into piece=Result | 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 118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/8/118/) - next →: [sentence 120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/8/120/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/8/)