Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 20

So I have come here, and have laid me down at the cross-roads.

Who acts: I · What happens: come, lay down · To what, where: me, cross-roads

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 (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7128:1820): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 come	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 come	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 laid	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 laid	cc
8	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 laid	aux
9	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 come	conj
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 laid	obj
11	down	down	ADP	_	9 laid	compound:prt
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 cross-roads	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cross-roads	det
14	cross-roads	cross-road	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 laid	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present · perfect	I			here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lay down	present · perfect	I not said here	me		the cross-roads			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme at cross-road=Destination

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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