English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 54

Before long the bear was left so far behind that he saw he might as well give up the hunt first as last, so he stretched himself out by the roadside to rest.

Who acts: bear · What happens: long, leave, see, give up, stretch out, rest · To what, where: bear, hunt · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Lazy Jack. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bear), 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	2 long	mark
2	long	long	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 left	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bear	det
4	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 long	obj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 left	aux:pass
6	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 far	advmod
8	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 left	advmod
9	behind	behind	ADP	_	12 saw	mark
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 saw	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 saw	nsubj
12	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 left	advcl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 give	nsubj
14	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 give	aux
15	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	17 give	cc
16	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 as	fixed
17	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 saw	ccomp
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 give	compound:prt
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hunt	det
20	hunt	hunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 give	obj
21	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 give	advmod
22	as	as	ADP	_	23 last	case
23	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 first	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 stretched	punct
25	so	so	ADV	_	27 stretched	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 stretched	nsubj
27	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 left	conj
28	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 stretched	obj
29	out	out	ADP	_	27 stretched	compound:prt
30	by	by	ADP	_	32 roadside	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 roadside	det
32	roadside	roadside	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stretched	obl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 rest	mark
34	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 stretched	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	long	gerund		the bear		tree rules
2	leave	past · passive			far property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»
3	see	past	bear			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	give up	might	bear	the hunt	first property	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunt=Source
5	stretch out	past	bear	bear	by the roadside	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
6	rest	to-infinitive	bear 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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