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title: An old woman, seated in the hut at a spinning-wheel, answered his re… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 114

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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.

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**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

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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.

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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:pg7128:18:114
# text = 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.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	seated	seat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	spinning	spinning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	wheel	wheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
15	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
25	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	inner	inner	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	appos	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	charming	charm	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	so	so	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
39	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	skinned	skinned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
43	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	haired	haired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
47	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
50	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux:pass	_	_
51	transfixed	transfix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	conj	_	_
52	by	by	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	_
54	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	55	mark	_	_
55	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	51	advcl	_	_
56	so	so	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
57	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
58	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obj	_	_
60	in	in	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
62	wretched	wretched	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	63	amod	_	_
63	hovel	hovel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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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