Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 80

This continued for some time, till at last he became quite tired of such a wretched life, and determined to go and try his luck in another country.

Who acts: king · What happens: continue, become, go, try · To what, where: This, luck, country

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 continued	nsubj:pass
2	continued	continue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 time	case
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 continued	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 became	punct
7	till	till	ADP	_	9 last	case
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 last	case
9	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 became	obl
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 became	nsubj
11	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 continued	parataxis
12	quite	quite	ADV	_	13 tired	advmod
13	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 became	xcomp
14	of	of	ADP	_	18 life	case
15	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	18 life	det:predet
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 life	det
17	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 life	amod
18	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tired	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 determined	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 determined	cc
21	determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 became	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 go	mark
23	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 determined	xcomp
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 try	cc
25	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 go	conj
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 luck	nmod:poss
27	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 try	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 country	case
29	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	30 country	det
30	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 try	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	continue	participle · passive		This		time		vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Theme
2	become	past	king			till last	tired property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	go	to-infinitive	king not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	try	infinitive	king not said here	king's luck	another country			vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Eventuality

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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