Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 46

One fell dead just beneath the window where the white Queen was sitting.

Who acts: One, white Queen · What happens: fall, sit · To what, where: window

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, white Queen), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fell	xcomp
4	just	just	ADV	_	7 window	advmod
5	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	7 window	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 window	det
7	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fell	obl
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 sitting	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Queen	det
10	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Queen	amod
11	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 sitting	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sitting	aux
13	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 window	acl:relcl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	One			the window		dead property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme beneath window=Location
2	sit	past · progressive	the white Queen						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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