--- title: As a certain fisherwoman passed by a palace crying her fish, the que… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: As a certain fisherwoman passed by a palace crying her fish, the queen appeared at one of the windows and beckoned her to come near and show what she had. Who acts: palace, queen, Fish. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, with its dependency tr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/25/96/) [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 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/25/) / 96 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 96 As a certain fisherwoman passed by a palace crying her fish, the queen appeared at one of the windows and beckoned her to come near and show what she had. **Who acts:** palace, queen, Fish · **What happens:** pass, cry, appear, beckon, come, show · **To what, where:** certain fisherwoman, fish · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (palace, queen, Fish), 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:pg7128:25:96 # text = As a certain fisherwoman passed by a palace crying her fish, the queen appeared at one of the windows and beckoned her to come near and show what she had. 1 As as ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 certain certain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 fisherwoman fisherwoman NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 5 passed pass VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 crying cry VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 acl _ _ 10 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 windows window NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 beckoned beckon VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 23 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 26 near near ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 29 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 31 obj _ _ 30 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 32 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pass** | participle | | a certain fisherwoman *not said here* | | | | by a palace | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by palace=Location | | 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | a palace *not said here* | Fish's fish | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Topic | | 3 | **appear** | past | the queen | | | | | as a certain fisherwoman; at one of the windows | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at one=Location | | 4 | **beckon** | past | the queen *not said here* | Fish | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **come** | to-infinitive | the queen *not said here* | | | | | near *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **show** | infinitive | the queen *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **have** | past | Fish | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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. - ← previous: [sentence 95](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/25/95/) - next →: [sentence 97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/25/97/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/25/)