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title: Gangazara sat in the dark cellar, without the sun's light falling up… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Gangazara sat in the dark cellar, without the sun's light falling upon him, and feasted upon the breadcrumbs and sweetmeats that the rats so kindly supplied him with. Who acts: Gangazara, light, sun. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, with its 
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 28

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Gangazara sat in the dark cellar, without the sun's light falling upon him, and feasted upon the breadcrumbs and sweetmeats that the rats so kindly supplied him with.

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**Who acts:** Gangazara, light, sun · **What happens:** sit, fall, feast, supply, light · **To what, where:** dark cellar, rats

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gangazara, light, sun), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7128:15:28
# text = Gangazara sat in the dark cellar, without the sun's light falling upon him, and feasted upon the breadcrumbs and sweetmeats that the rats so kindly supplied him with.
1	Gangazara	Gangazara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	cellar	cellar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	without	without	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
13	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	feasted	feast	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	breadcrumbs	breadcrumb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	sweetmeats	sweetmeat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	obj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	rats	rat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	supplied	supply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl:relcl	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | Gangazara |  |  | the dark cellar |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cellar=Location |
| 2 | **fall** | gerund | the sun's light *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon Gangazara | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon he=Location |
| 3 | **feast** | past | Gangazara *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon the breadcrumbs and sweetmeats | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **supply** | participle · passive |  | the rats |  |  |  | kindly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **light** |  | the sun |  |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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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