Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 54

Now many men were locked up in this house; two horses were standing there in a hut of the Fakir's; two greyhounds were tied up there; two simurgs were imprisoned, and two tigers also stood there.

Who acts: two horses, two tigers · What happens: lock up, stand, tie up, imprison · To what, where: many men, house, hut, two greyhounds, two simurgs

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 (two horses, two tigers), 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	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 men	amod
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 locked	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 locked	aux:pass
5	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 locked	compound:prt
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 house	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 house	det
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 locked	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 standing	punct
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 horses	nummod
12	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 standing	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 standing	aux
14	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 locked	advcl
15	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 standing	advmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 hut	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 hut	det
18	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 standing	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 Fakir	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Fakir	det
21	Fakir	Fakir	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 hut	nmod
22	's	's	PART	_	21 Fakir	case
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 tied	punct
24	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 greyhounds	nummod
25	greyhounds	greyhound	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 tied	nsubj:pass
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 tied	aux:pass
27	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 locked	conj
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 tied	compound:prt
29	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 tied	advmod
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 imprisoned	punct
31	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 simurgs	nummod
32	simurgs	simurg	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 imprisoned	nsubj:pass
33	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 imprisoned	aux:pass
34	imprisoned	imprison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 tied	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 stood	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 stood	cc
37	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 tigers	nummod
38	tigers	tiger	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 stood	nsubj
39	also	also	ADV	_	40 stood	advmod
40	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 locked	conj
41	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	40 stood	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 locked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	lock up	past · passive		many men	this house	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	stand	past · progressive	two horses		a hut of the Fakir; there	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hut=Location
3	tie up	past · passive		two greyhounds	there	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	imprison	past · passive		two simurgs		vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	stand	past	two tigers		there	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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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