--- title: Her beauty bewitched him, so he fell on his knees, begging her to re… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted H --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/116/) [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 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/) / 116 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7128:18:116 # text = 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. 1 Her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 beauty beauty NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 bewitched bewitch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 so so ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 knees knee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 begging beg VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 14 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 return return VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ _ 19 as as ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 bride bride NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 only only ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 advcl _ _ 29 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 Queens queen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 31 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 quite quite ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 enough enough ADV RB _ 28 ccomp _ _ 34 even even ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 35 for for ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 advcl _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 manage manage VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/115/) - next →: [sentence 117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/117/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/)