Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 129

Night had not long cast its dark mantle over the scene when the fakir and his disciple threw off their disguise, and taking their horses and luggage, appeared before the cage.

Who acts: Night, fakir · What happens: have, not cast, throw off, take, appear · To what, where: dark mantle, scene, disguise, horses, cage

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Night, fakir), 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	Night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 cast	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 cast	advmod
5	cast	cast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mantle	nmod:poss
7	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mantle	amod
8	mantle	mantle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cast	obj
9	over	over	ADP	_	11 scene	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 scene	det
11	scene	scene	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cast	obl
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 threw	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fakir	det
14	fakir	fakir	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 threw	nsubj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 disciple	cc
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 disciple	nmod:poss
17	disciple	disciple	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fakir	conj
18	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cast	advcl
19	off	off	ADP	_	18 threw	compound:prt
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 disguise	nmod:poss
21	disguise	disguise	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 threw	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 taking	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 taking	cc
24	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 had	advcl
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 horses	nmod:poss
26	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 taking	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 luggage	cc
28	luggage	luggage	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 horses	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 appeared	punct
30	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
31	before	before	ADP	_	33 cage	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 cage	det
33	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 appeared	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Night					tree rules
2	not cast	infinitive	Night not said here	graveyard's dark mantle		the scene	long property	vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent mantle=Theme over scene=Destination
3	throw off	past	the fakir and fakir's disciple	disciple's disguise				vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disguise=Theme
4	take	gerund	Night not said here		disciple's horses and luggage			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument horse=Destination
5	appear	past	Night not said here			the cage		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before cage=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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