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title: While the Fakir was sitting there the King's sons were sitting down… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: While the Fakir was sitting there the King's sons were sitting down below in their cellar eating their food. Who acts: Fakir, sons, cellar. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 35

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While the Fakir was sitting there the King's sons were sitting down below in their cellar eating their food.

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**Who acts:** Fakir, sons, cellar · **What happens:** sit, sit down, eat · **To what, where:** cellar, food

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fakir, sons, cellar), 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:pg7128:25:35
# text = While the Fakir was sitting there the King's sons were sitting down below in their cellar eating their food.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Fakir	Fakir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	csubj	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
13	down	down	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	below	below	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	cellar	cellar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past · progressive | the Fakir |  |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sit down** | past · progressive | the King's sons |  |  | girls's cellar |  | below, down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cellar=Location |
| 3 | **eat** | gerund | girls's cellar *not said here* | girls's food |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient |

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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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