Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 114

An old woman, seated in the hut at a spinning-wheel, answered his request by calling to her daughter, and immediately from an inner room came a maiden so lovely and charming, so white-skinned and golden-haired, that the King was transfixed by astonishment at seeing so beautiful a sight in the wretched hovel.

Who acts: old woman, astonishment, king · What happens: seat, answer, call, come, charm, transfix · To what, where: old woman, hut, request, daughter, maiden, King · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, astonishment, king), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 answered	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 seated	punct
5	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 woman	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 hut	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hut	det
8	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seated	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	13 wheel	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 wheel	det
11	spinning	spinning	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wheel	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 spinning	punct
13	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hut	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 woman	punct
15	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 request	nmod:poss
17	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 answered	obj
18	by	by	SCONJ	_	19 calling	mark
19	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 answered	advcl
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 daughter	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 daughter	nmod:poss
22	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 calling	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 came	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 came	cc
25	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	30 came	advmod
26	from	from	ADP	_	29 room	case
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 room	det
28	inner	inner	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 room	amod
29	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 immediately	obl
30	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 answered	parataxis
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 maiden	det
32	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 came	obj
33	so	so	ADV	_	34 lovely	advmod
34	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 maiden	appos
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 charming	cc
36	charming	charm	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 lovely	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 skinned	punct
38	so	so	ADV	_	41 skinned	advmod
39	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 skinned	amod
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 white	punct
41	skinned	skinned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 came	conj
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 haired	cc
43	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 haired	amod
44	-	-	PUNCT	_	43 golden	punct
45	haired	haired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 skinned	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 transfixed	punct
47	that	that	SCONJ	_	51 transfixed	mark
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 King	det
49	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 transfixed	nsubj
50	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 transfixed	aux:pass
51	transfixed	transfix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 came	conj
52	by	by	ADP	_	53 astonishment	case
53	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 transfixed	obl
54	at	at	SCONJ	_	55 seeing	mark
55	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	51 transfixed	advcl
56	so	so	ADV	_	57 beautiful	advmod
57	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 sight	amod
58	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	59 sight	det
59	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 seeing	obj
60	in	in	ADP	_	63 hovel	case
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 hovel	det
62	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 hovel	amod
63	hovel	hovel	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 seeing	obl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	seat	participle		a old woman not said here		the hut at a spinning wheel		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in hut=Location
2	answer speech: assert	past	a old woman	king's request				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent request=Eventuality
3	call	gerund	a old woman not said here		woman's daughter			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to daughter=Recipient
4	come	past		a maiden			immediately property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location maiden=Theme
5	charm	gerund						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	transfix	past · passive	astonishment	the King				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
7	see	gerund	astonishment not said here	a beautiful sight		the wretched hovel		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus
8	request		king					nom request «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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