Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 70

The king a long time ago had caught two demons, and then, as he did not know what to do with them, he had shut them up in a cage.

Who acts: king · What happens: catch, not know, do, shut up · To what, where: king, demons, cage

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 caught	nsubj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 time	det
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 time	amod
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 caught	nsubj:pass
6	ago	ago	ADV	_	5 time	advmod
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 caught	aux
8	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 demons	nummod
10	demons	demon	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 caught	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 shut	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 shut	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 shut	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 then	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 know	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 know	nsubj
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 know	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 know	advmod
19	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 shut	advcl
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 know	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 do	mark
22	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 what	acl
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 do	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 know	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 shut	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 shut	aux
28	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 caught	conj
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 shut	obj
30	up	up	ADP	_	28 shut	compound:prt
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 cage	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 cage	det
33	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 shut	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past · perfect · passive		the king				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary demon=Theme
2	not know	past · do-support	king					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
3	do	to-infinitive	king not said here				with demons = demon	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	shut up	past · perfect	king	demons = demon	a cage	then		vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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