Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 14

Now this King went and laid him down to rest at a place where four roads met, so that every one who passed had to step over him.

Who acts: King, four roads, one · What happens: go, lay down, rest, meet, pass, have · To what, where: King, place

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 (King, four roads, one), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 went	advmod
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 laid	cc
6	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 laid	obj
8	down	down	ADP	_	6 laid	compound:prt
9	to	to	PART	_	10 rest	mark
10	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 laid	advcl
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 place	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 place	det
13	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rest	obl
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 met	advmod
15	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 roads	nummod
16	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 met	nsubj
17	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 place	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
19	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	25 had	mark
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 so	fixed
21	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	22 one	det
22	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	nsubj
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 passed	nsubj
24	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 one	acl:relcl
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 step	mark
27	step	step	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 had	xcomp
28	over	over	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 step	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	this King			now		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lay down	past	this King not said here	King				vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Result
3	rest	to-infinitive	this King not said here		a place			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at place=Location
4	meet	past	four roads					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	pass	past	every one					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	have	past	every one					tree rules
7	step	to-infinitive	every one not said here				over King	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over he=Trajectory

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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