Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 132

Now at that time a great wedding chanced to be going on among the rat community of that place, and all the rats of the neighbourhood were assembled in that one particular mine by which the cat had lain down.

Who acts: great wedding · What happens: chance, go on, assemble, lie down · To what, where: rat community, rats, one particular, mine

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great wedding), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 chanced	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 time	case
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chanced	obl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wedding	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wedding	amod
7	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chanced	nsubj
8	chanced	chance	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	11 going	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 going	aux
11	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 chanced	advcl
12	on	on	ADP	_	11 going	compound:prt
13	among	among	ADP	_	16 community	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 community	det
15	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 community	compound
16	community	community	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 going	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 place	case
18	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 place	det
19	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 community	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 assembled	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 assembled	cc
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 rats	det:predet
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 rats	det
24	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 assembled	nsubj:pass
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 neighbourhood	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 neighbourhood	det
27	neighbourhood	neighbourhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rats	nmod
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 assembled	aux:pass
29	assembled	assemble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 chanced	conj
30	in	in	ADP	_	33 particular	case
31	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 particular	nsubj
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 particular	nummod
33	particular	particular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 assembled	obl
34	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 lain	nsubj:pass
35	by	by	ADP	_	36 which	case
36	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 lain	obl
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 cat	det
38	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 lain	nsubj
39	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 lain	aux
40	lain	lie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 particular	conj
41	down	down	ADP	_	40 lain	compound:prt
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 chanced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	chance	participle	a great wedding			now; time	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go on	to-infinitive · progressive	a great wedding not said here		the rat community of that place		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme among community=Location
3	assemble	past · passive		all rats of the neighbourhood	one particular		vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
4	lie down	past · perfect · passive		mine			tree rules

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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