Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 51

Many, many weary miles did he travel, till at last he came to a thick jungle; and, being very tired, sat down under a tree and fell asleep.

Who acts: Many many weary miles, meantime · What happens: travel, come, be, sit down, fall · To what, where: last, tree

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many many weary miles, meantime), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 miles	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Many	punct
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 miles	amod
4	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 miles	amod
5	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 travel	nsubj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 travel	aux
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 travel	nsubj
8	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct
10	till	till	SCONJ	_	14 came	mark
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 last	case
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 came	obl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 travel	parataxis
15	to	to	ADP	_	18 jungle	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 jungle	det
17	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 jungle	amod
18	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 tired	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 tired	cc
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 tired	punct
22	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 tired	cop
23	very	very	ADV	_	24 tired	advmod
24	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 travel	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sat	punct
26	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 travel	parataxis
27	down	down	ADP	_	26 sat	compound:prt
28	under	under	ADP	_	30 tree	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 tree	det
30	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sat	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 fell	cc
32	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 sat	conj
33	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 fell	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 travel	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	travel	past · do-support	Many many weary miles			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	meantime	last	to a thick jungle	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to jungle=Initial_Location
3	is	gerund	Many many weary miles not said here		tired property	tree rules
4	sit down	past		a tree		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location
5	fall	past			asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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