Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 40

In it there lived three notorious robbers, of whose existence the traders had never heard, and while they were still in the middle of it the robbers stood before them, with swords and cudgels in their hands, and ordered them to lay down all they had.

Who acts: village, traders, robbers · What happens: live, not hear, be, stand, order, lay down · To what, where: three notorious robbers, traders, middle, all

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (village, traders, robbers), 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	SCONJ	_	4 lived	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lived	nsubj
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 lived	advmod
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 robbers	nummod
6	notorious	notorious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 robbers	amod
7	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lived	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 heard	punct
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 existence	case
10	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	11 existence	nmod:poss
11	existence	existence	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 heard	obl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 traders	det
13	traders	trader	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 heard	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 heard	aux
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 heard	advmod
16	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 lived	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 stood	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 stood	cc
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	25 middle	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 middle	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 middle	cop
22	still	still	ADV	_	25 middle	advmod
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 middle	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 middle	det
25	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stood	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 middle	nmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 robbers	det
29	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 stood	nsubj
30	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 heard	conj
31	before	before	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 stood	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 swords	punct
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 swords	case
35	swords	sword	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 stood	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 cudgels	cc
37	cudgels	cudgel	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 swords	conj
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 hands	case
39	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 hands	nmod:poss
40	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 swords	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 ordered	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 ordered	cc
43	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 stood	advcl
44	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 ordered	obj
45	to	to	PART	_	46 lay	mark
46	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 ordered	xcomp
47	down	down	ADV	_	48 all	advmod
48	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	46 lay	obj
49	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 had	nsubj
50	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 all	acl:relcl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	village	three notorious robbers		there			vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme robber=Location
2	not hear	past · perfect · passive		the traders				of existence	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
3	is	past	traders = trader			the middle	still	of village	tree rules
4	stand	past	the robbers				before traders = trader	with swords in traders's hands and cudgels	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before they=Location
5	order	past	the robbers not said here		traders = trader				vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
6	lay down not said to happen	to-infinitive	the robbers not said here	all					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Result
7	have	past	robbers = robber						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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