English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 17

He travelled till he came to a big stone, and there he sat down to rest.

Who acts: giant · What happens: travel, come, sit down, rest · To what, where: big stone

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Nix Nought Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 travelled	nsubj
2	travelled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	till	till	SCONJ	_	5 came	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 travelled	ccomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 stone	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 stone	det
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stone	amod
9	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sat	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sat	cc
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 sat	expl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sat	nsubj
14	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 travelled	conj
15	down	down	ADP	_	14 sat	compound:prt
16	to	to	PART	_	17 rest	mark
17	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 sat	advcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 travelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	travel	past	giant		tree rules
2	come	past	giant	a big stone	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stone=Initial_Location
3	sit down	past	giant	there	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	rest	to-infinitive	giant not said here		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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