Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 92

Her keen sense of smell soon brought her to the beautiful princess, to whom she appeared as an old hag, holding in one hand a stick by way of support.

Who acts: keen sense, woman · What happens: bring, appear, hold, sense · To what, where: woman, beautiful princess, stick, one hand, smell

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 (keen sense, woman), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 sense	nmod:poss
2	keen	keen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sense	amod
3	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brought	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 smell	case
5	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sense	nmod
6	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 brought	advmod
7	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 brought	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 princess	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 princess	det
11	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 princess	amod
12	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brought	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 appeared	punct
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 whom	case
15	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 appeared	obl
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 appeared	nsubj
17	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 brought	conj
18	as	as	ADP	_	21 hag	case
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 hag	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 hag	amod
21	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 appeared	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 holding	punct
23	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 appeared	advcl
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 hand	case
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 hand	nummod
26	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 holding	obl
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 stick	det
28	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 holding	obj
29	by	by	ADP	_	30 way	case
30	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 holding	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 support	case
32	support	support	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 way	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	bring	past	woman's keen sense of smell	woman	the beautiful princess		soon property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to princess=Destination
2	appear	past	woman				as a old hag	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hold	gerund	woman not said here	a stick		one hand	by way of support	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent stick=Theme in hand=Location
4	sense		woman	smell				nom sense «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=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.

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