Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 28

Gangazara sat in the dark cellar, without the sun's light falling upon him, and feasted upon the breadcrumbs and sweetmeats that the rats so kindly supplied him with.

Who acts: Gangazara, light, sun · What happens: sit, fall, feast, supply, light · To what, where: dark cellar, rats

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gangazara, light, sun), 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	Gangazara	Gangazara	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 cellar	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cellar	det
5	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cellar	amod
6	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 light	punct
8	without	without	ADP	_	12 light	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sun	det
10	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 light	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 sun	case
12	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	conj
13	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 light	acl
14	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 falling	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 feasted	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 feasted	cc
18	feasted	feast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
19	upon	upon	ADP	_	21 breadcrumbs	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 breadcrumbs	det
21	breadcrumbs	breadcrumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 feasted	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 sweetmeats	cc
23	sweetmeats	sweetmeat	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 breadcrumbs	conj
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 supplied	obj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 rats	det
26	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 supplied	nsubj:pass
27	so	so	ADV	_	29 supplied	advmod
28	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	29 supplied	advmod
29	supplied	supply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 breadcrumbs	acl:relcl
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 supplied	obj
31	with	with	ADP	_	29 supplied	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	Gangazara		the dark cellar		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cellar=Location
2	fall	gerund	the sun's light not said here			upon Gangazara	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon he=Location
3	feast	past	Gangazara not said here			upon the breadcrumbs and sweetmeats	vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	supply	participle · passive		the rats		kindly property	tree rules
5	light		the sun				nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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.

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