--- title: As soon as the woman recovered her senses she told them that two you… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: As soon as the woman recovered her senses she told them that two young men had passed by the place with their bows and arrows, and that one of them had most deliberately aimed at her as she stood by the window. Who acts: woman, place, one. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon W --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/27/18/) [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 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/27/) / 18 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 18 As soon as the woman recovered her senses she told them that two young men had passed by the place with their bows and arrows, and that one of them had most deliberately aimed at her as she stood by the window. **Who acts:** woman, place, one · **What happens:** recover, tell, pass, have, aim, stand · **To what, where:** senses, two young men · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, place, one), 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:pg7128:27:18 # text = As soon as the woman recovered her senses she told them that two young men had passed by the place with their bows and arrows, and that one of them had most deliberately aimed at her as she stood by the window. 1 As as ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ _ 3 as as SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 recovered recover VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 senses sens NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 11 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 iobj _ _ 12 that that SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 13 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 14 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 passed pass VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 ccomp _ _ 18 by by ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 bows bow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 arrows arrow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 28 that that SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 29 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 nsubj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nmod _ _ 32 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 33 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 35 advmod _ _ 34 deliberately deliberately ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 aimed aim VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 xcomp _ _ 36 at at ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obl _ _ 38 as as SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 39 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 advcl _ _ 41 by by ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **recover** | past | the woman | woman's senses | | | | soon *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sens=Theme | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | woman | | senses *= sens* | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **pass** | past · perfect · passive | the place with men's bows and arrows | two young men | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Trajectory | | 4 | **have** | past | one of arrows | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **aim** | participle | one of arrows *not said here* | | | | | at woman; deliberately *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 6 | **stand** | past | woman | | | | | by the window | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by window=Location | 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 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/27/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/27/19/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/27/)