Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 109

These thieves lived in a kind of tower, which had several strong-rooms in it, and under it was a great pit, wherein they threw the corpses of the poor unfortunates who chanced to fall into their power.

Who acts: thieves, tower, room, poor unfortunates · What happens: live, have, be, throw, chance, fall · To what, where: kind, several strong rooms, room, great pit, corpses, power

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thieves, tower, room, poor unfortunates), 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 thieves	det
2	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lived	nsubj
3	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 kind	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 kind	det
6	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lived	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 tower	case
8	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kind	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tower	acl:relcl
12	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 rooms	amod
13	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 rooms	amod
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 strong	punct
15	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 had	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 rooms	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 pit	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 pit	cc
20	under	under	ADP	_	25 pit	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 pit	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 pit	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 pit	det
24	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 pit	amod
25	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lived	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 threw	punct
27	wherein	wherein	ADV	PronType=Int	29 threw	advmod
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 threw	nsubj
29	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 pit	parataxis
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 corpses	det
31	corpses	corpse	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 threw	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 unfortunates	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 unfortunates	det
34	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 unfortunates	amod
35	unfortunates	unfortunate	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 corpses	nmod
36	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 chanced	nsubj
37	chanced	chance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 unfortunates	acl:relcl
38	to	to	PART	_	39 fall	mark
39	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 chanced	xcomp
40	into	into	ADP	_	42 power	case
41	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 power	nmod:poss
42	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 fall	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past	this thieves		a kind of tower		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in kind=Location
2	have	past	tower	several strong rooms	room		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Patient
3	is	past	room		a great pit		tree rules
4	throw	past	thieves = thief	the corpses of the poor unfortunates		wherein property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corpse=Theme
5	chance	past	the poor unfortunates				vn risk-94-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	fall	to-infinitive	the poor unfortunates not said here			into thieves's power result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into power=Result

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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