--- title: Now many men were locked up in this house; two horses were standing… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Now many men were locked up in this house; two horses were standing there in a hut of the Fakir's; two greyhounds were tied up there; two simurgs were imprisoned, and two tigers also stood there. Who acts: two horses, two tigers. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/25/54/) [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 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/25/) / 54 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 54 Now many men were locked up in this house; two horses were standing there in a hut of the Fakir's; two greyhounds were tied up there; two simurgs were imprisoned, and two tigers also stood there. **Who acts:** two horses, two tigers · **What happens:** lock up, stand, tie up, imprison · **To what, where:** many men, house, hut, two greyhounds, two simurgs 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 (two horses, two tigers), 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:pg7128:25:54 # text = Now many men were locked up in this house; two horses were standing there in a hut of the Fakir's; two greyhounds were tied up there; two simurgs were imprisoned, and two tigers also stood there. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 2 advmod _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 locked lock VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 up up ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 9 det _ _ 9 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 11 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 13 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 standing stand VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 15 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 14 advmod _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 hut hut NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Fakir Fakir PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 's 's PART POS _ 21 case _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 24 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 greyhounds greyhound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 tied tie VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 28 up up ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 29 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 27 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 32 simurgs simurg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 imprisoned imprison VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 37 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 38 nummod _ _ 38 tigers tiger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ _ 39 also also ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 41 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 40 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lock up** | past · passive | | many men | | this house | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **stand** | past · progressive | two horses | | | a hut of the Fakir; there | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hut=Location | | 3 | **tie up** | past · passive | | two greyhounds | | there | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **imprison** | past · passive | | two simurgs | | | | | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **stand** | past | two tigers | | | there | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/25/53/) - next →: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/25/55/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/25/)