Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 35

While the Fakir was sitting there the King's sons were sitting down below in their cellar eating their food.

Who acts: Fakir, sons, cellar · What happens: sit, sit down, eat · To what, where: cellar, food

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fakir, sons, cellar), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	5 sitting	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Fakir	det
3	Fakir	Fakir	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sitting	aux
5	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 sitting	csubj
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 sitting	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 King	det
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 sons	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 King	case
10	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sitting	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sitting	aux
12	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
13	down	down	ADV	_	12 sitting	advmod
14	below	below	ADV	_	12 sitting	advmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 cellar	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 cellar	nmod:poss
17	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sitting	obl
18	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 cellar	acl
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 food	nmod:poss
20	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 eating	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	the Fakir		there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sit down	past · progressive	the King's sons		girls's cellar	below, down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cellar=Location
3	eat	gerund	girls's cellar not said here	girls's food			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient

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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