Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 116

Her beauty bewitched him, so he fell on his knees, begging her to return with him as his bride; but she only laughed, saying seven Queens were quite enough even for a King to manage.

Who acts: beauty, king, woman, seven Queens · What happens: bewitch, fall, beg, return, laugh, say · To what, where: king, knees, woman · 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 (beauty, king, woman, seven Queens), 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	2 beauty	nmod:poss
2	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bewitched	nsubj
3	bewitched	bewitch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bewitched	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fell	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 fell	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fell	nsubj
8	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bewitched	conj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 knees	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 knees	nmod:poss
11	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fell	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 begging	punct
13	begging	beg	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 fell	advcl
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 begging	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 return	mark
16	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 begging	xcomp
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 return	obl
19	as	as	ADP	_	21 bride	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 bride	nmod:poss
21	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 return	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 laughed	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 laughed	cc
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 laughed	nsubj
25	only	only	ADV	_	26 laughed	advmod
26	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bewitched	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 saying	punct
28	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 laughed	advcl
29	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 Queens	nummod
30	Queens	queen	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 enough	nsubj
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 enough	cop
32	quite	quite	ADV	_	33 enough	advmod
33	enough	enough	ADV	_	28 saying	ccomp
34	even	even	ADV	_	37 King	advmod
35	for	for	ADP	_	37 King	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 King	det
37	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 enough	advcl
38	to	to	PART	_	39 manage	mark
39	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 enough	advcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bewitched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	bewitch	past	woman's beauty	king				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
2	fall	past	king			king's knees		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location
3	beg speech: request	gerund	king not said here		woman			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	return not said to happen	to-infinitive	king not said here				with king; as king's bride	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	laugh	past	woman					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	say speech: assert	gerund	woman not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	is	past	seven Queens				enough property	tree rules
8	manage	to-infinitive	seven Queens not said here					vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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