Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 43

They seated themselves like three monarchs before the men they had plundered, and ordered them to dance to them before returning home.

Who acts: traders · What happens: seat, plunder, order, dance, return · To what, where: traders, men

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 (traders), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seated	nsubj
2	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 seated	obj
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 monarchs	case
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 monarchs	nummod
6	monarchs	monarch	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 seated	obl
7	before	before	ADP	_	9 men	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 men	det
9	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 monarchs	nmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 plundered	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 plundered	aux
12	plundered	plunder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 men	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ordered	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 ordered	cc
15	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seated	parataxis
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 ordered	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 dance	mark
18	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 ordered	xcomp
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 dance	obl
21	before	before	SCONJ	_	22 returning	mark
22	returning	return	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 dance	advcl
23	home	home	ADV	_	22 returning	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	seat	past	traders = trader	traders = trader		like three monarchs before the men	vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location themselves=Value
2	plunder	past · perfect	traders = trader	the men not said here			vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Source
3	order	past			traders = trader		vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
4	dance not said to happen	to-infinitive			traders = trader		vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme to they=Trajectory
5	return	gerund				home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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