Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 147

It was a dark cellar underground, built with strong stone walls, into which any criminal guilty of a capital offence was ushered to breathe his last there without food and drink.

Who acts: dungeon · What happens: be, build, usher, breathe · To what, where: dark cellar, criminal guilty, strong stone walls, last

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dungeon), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cellar	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cellar	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cellar	det
4	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cellar	amod
5	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	underground	underground	ADV	_	5 cellar	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 built	punct
8	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 cellar	acl
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 walls	case
10	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 walls	amod
11	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 walls	compound
12	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 built	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 ushered	punct
14	into	into	ADP	_	15 which	case
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 ushered	obl
16	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	18 guilty	det
17	criminal	criminal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 guilty	amod
18	guilty	guilty	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ushered	nsubj:pass
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 offence	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 offence	det
21	capital	capital	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 offence	amod
22	offence	offence	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 guilty	nmod
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 ushered	aux:pass
24	ushered	usher	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 walls	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 breathe	mark
26	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 ushered	xcomp
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 last	nmod:poss
28	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 breathe	obj
29	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 breathe	advmod
30	without	without	ADP	_	31 food	case
31	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 breathe	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 drink	cc
33	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 food	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cellar	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	dungeon	a dark cellar		underground property	tree rules
2	build	participle		a dark cellar not said here		with strong stone walls	vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent with wall=Source
3	usher	past · passive		any criminal guilty of a capital offence	strong stone walls		tree rules
4	breathe	to-infinitive		Brahman's last	there	without food and drink	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent last=Theme

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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