--- title: Now at that time a great wedding chanced to be going on among the ra… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Now at that time a great wedding chanced to be going on among the rat community of that place, and all the rats of the neighbourhood were assembled in that one particular mine by which the cat had lain down. Who acts: great wedding. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Mat --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/16/132/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Indian Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/) / [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/16/) / 132 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 132 Now at that time a great wedding chanced to be going on among the rat community of that place, and all the rats of the neighbourhood were assembled in that one particular mine by which the cat had lain down. **Who acts:** great wedding · **What happens:** chance, go on, assemble, lie down · **To what, where:** rat community, rats, one particular, mine This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great wedding), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7128:16:132 # text = Now at that time a great wedding chanced to be going on among the rat community of that place, and all the rats of the neighbourhood were assembled in that one particular mine by which the cat had lain down. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 8 advmod _ _ 2 at at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 det _ _ 4 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 wedding wedding NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 chanced chance VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 10 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 11 aux _ _ 11 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 12 on on ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 among among ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 rat rat NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 community community NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 19 det _ _ 19 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 22 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 24 det:predet _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 neighbourhood neighbourhood NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 assembled assemble VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 33 nsubj _ _ 32 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 33 particular particular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 obl _ _ 34 mine my PRON PRP Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj:pass _ _ 35 by by ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 40 obl _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 39 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 lain lie VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 conj _ _ 41 down down ADP RP _ 40 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **chance** | participle | a great wedding | | | | now; time | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **go on** | to-infinitive · progressive | a great wedding *not said here* | | | the rat community of that place | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme among community=Location | | 3 | **assemble** | past · passive | | all rats of the neighbourhood | | one particular | | | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **lie down** | past · perfect · passive | | mine | | | | | tree rules | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 131](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/16/131/) - next →: [sentence 133](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/16/133/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/16/)