Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 62

Now, before they sat down to play, Raja Sarkap fixed his stakes,--on the first game, his kingdom; on the second, the wealth of the whole world; and, on the third, his own head.

Who acts: kittens, Raja · What happens: sit down, play, fix, stake · To what, where: first game, stakes

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kittens, Raja), 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	5 sat	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sat	punct
3	before	before	SCONJ	_	5 sat	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sat	nsubj
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	down	down	ADV	_	5 sat	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 play	mark
8	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sat	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Raja	punct
10	Raja	Raja	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 fixed	nsubj
11	Sarkap	Sarkap	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Raja	flat
12	fixed	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 play	ccomp
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 stakes	nmod:poss
14	stakes	stake	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 fixed	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 game	punct
16	--	--	PUNCT	_	20 game	punct
17	on	on	ADP	_	20 game	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 game	det
19	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	20 game	amod
20	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 kingdom	punct
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 kingdom	nmod:poss
23	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 game	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 second	punct
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 second	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 second	det
27	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 sat	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 wealth	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 wealth	det
30	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 second	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 world	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 world	det
33	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 world	amod
34	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 wealth	nmod
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 third	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 third	cc
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 and	punct
38	on	on	ADP	_	40 third	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 third	det
40	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 sat	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 head	punct
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 head	nmod:poss
43	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 head	amod
44	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 third	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	kittens = kitten		the first game and Raja's kingdom	now	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on game=Location
2	play	to-infinitive	kittens = kitten not said here					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	fix	past	Raja	Raja's stakes				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent stake=Patient
4	stake		Raja					nom stake «possession 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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