Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 51

There were about a hundred gallons of oil in this caldron, and the fire was burning beneath it.

Who acts: hundred gallons, fire · What happens: be about, burn · To what, where: caldron

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 (hundred gallons, fire), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADV	_	5 hundred	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hundred	det
5	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 gallons	nummod
6	gallons	gallon	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 oil	case
8	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gallons	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 caldron	case
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 caldron	det
11	caldron	caldron	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 oil	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 burning	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 burning	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fire	det
15	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 burning	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 burning	aux
17	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 were	advcl
18	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 burning	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be about	past	hundred gallons of oil in this caldron			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	burn	past · progressive	the fire			caldron			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath it=Location

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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