Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 108

And now, as he had traveled a good way, and was also rather weary with his exertions in the fight, he spread out his lion's skin on the ground, and, reclining himself upon it, fell fast asleep.

Who acts: Hercules · What happens: travel, be, spread out, recline, fall, exert · To what, where: good way, skin, ground, Hercules, fight

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hercules), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 traveled	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 traveled	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 now	punct
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 traveled	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 traveled	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 traveled	aux
7	traveled	travel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 way	det
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 way	amod
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 traveled	obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 weary	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 weary	cc
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 weary	cop
14	also	also	ADV	_	16 weary	advmod
15	rather	rather	ADV	_	16 weary	advmod
16	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 traveled	conj
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 exertions	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 exertions	nmod:poss
19	exertions	exertion	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 weary	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 fight	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 fight	det
22	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 exertions	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 spread	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 spread	nsubj
25	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 traveled	parataxis
26	out	out	ADP	_	25 spread	compound:prt
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 lion	nmod:poss
28	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 skin	nmod:poss
29	's	's	PART	_	28 lion	case
30	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 spread	obj
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 ground	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 ground	det
33	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 spread	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 fell	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 fell	cc
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 reclining	punct
37	reclining	recline	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	42 fell	ccomp
38	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	37 reclining	obj
39	upon	upon	ADP	_	40 it	case
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 reclining	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 reclining	punct
42	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 spread	conj
43	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	42 fell	advmod
44	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 fell	xcomp
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 traveled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	travel	past · perfect	Hercules	a good way		now		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	Hercules not said here				with Hercules's exertions in the fight; weary property	tree rules
3	spread out	past	Hercules	Hercules's lion's skin	the ground			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent skin=Theme on ground=Destination
4	recline	gerund		Hercules	ground			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme upon it=Destination
5	fall	past	Hercules not said here				asleep, fast property	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	exert		Hercules		the fight			nom exertion «act transitive»: poss=agent in=place

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: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (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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