Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 45

In the midst of the jungle grows a circle of palm trees, and in the centre of the circle stand six chattees full of water, piled one above another: below the sixth chattee is a small cage which contains a little green parrot; on the life of the parrot depends my life; and if the parrot is killed I must die.

Who acts: six chattees, small cage, I · What happens: grow, stand, pile, be, contain, depend · To what, where: circle, midst, six chattees, centre, one, another

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (six chattees, small cage, I), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 midst	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 midst	det
3	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grows	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 jungle	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 jungle	det
6	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 midst	nmod
7	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 circle	det
9	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grows	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 trees	case
11	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 trees	compound
12	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 circle	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 stand	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 stand	cc
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 centre	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 centre	det
17	centre	centre	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stand	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 circle	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 circle	det
20	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 centre	nmod
21	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 grows	parataxis
22	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 chattees	nummod
23	chattees	chattee	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 stand	obj
24	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 chattees	amod
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 water	case
26	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 full	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 piled	punct
28	piled	pile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 chattees	acl:relcl
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 piled	obj
30	above	above	ADP	_	31 another	case
31	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	29 one	nmod
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	40 cage	punct
33	below	below	ADP	_	36 chattee	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 chattee	det
35	sixth	sixth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 chattee	amod
36	chattee	chattee	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 cage	obl
37	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 cage	cop
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 cage	det
39	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 cage	amod
40	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 chattees	conj
41	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 contains	nsubj
42	contains	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 cage	acl:relcl
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 parrot	det
44	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 parrot	amod
45	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 parrot	amod
46	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 contains	obj
47	;	;	PUNCT	_	54 depends	punct
48	on	on	ADP	_	50 life	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 life	det
50	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 depends	obl
51	of	of	ADP	_	53 parrot	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 parrot	det
53	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 life	nmod
54	depends	depend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 grows	conj
55	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 life	nmod:poss
56	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 depends	obj
57	;	;	PUNCT	_	63 killed	punct
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 killed	cc
59	if	if	SCONJ	_	63 killed	mark
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 parrot	det
61	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 killed	nsubj:pass
62	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	63 killed	aux:pass
63	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 grows	conj
64	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	66 die	nsubj
65	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	66 die	aux
66	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	63 killed	ccomp
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 grows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	grow	present		a circle of palm trees	the midst of the jungle	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location circle=Theme
2	stand	present		six chattees and a small cage	the centre of the circle	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent chattee=Theme in centre=Destination
3	pile	past	six chattees and a small cage not said here	one	another	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Theme above another=Destination
4	is a	present		a small cage	the sixth chattee	tree rules
5	contain	present	a small cage	a little green parrot		vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot parrot=Theme
6	depend	present		my life	the life of the parrot	tree rules
7	kill a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		the parrot		tree rules
8	die	must	I			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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