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title: This continued for some time, till at last he became quite tired of… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This continued for some time, till at last he became quite tired of such a wretched life, and determined to go and try his luck in another country. Who acts: king. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 80

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This continued for some time, till at last he became quite tired of such a wretched life, and determined to go and try his luck in another country.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** continue, become, go, try · **To what, where:** This, luck, country

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7128:17:80
# text = This continued for some time, till at last he became quite tired of such a wretched life, and determined to go and try his luck in another country.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	continued	continue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	till	till	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	18	det:predet	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	wretched	wretched	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	determined	determined	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	det	_	_
30	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | participle · passive |  | This |  |  | time |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **become** | past | king |  |  |  | till last | tired *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **go** | to-infinitive | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **try** | infinitive | king *not said here* | king's luck |  | another country |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Eventuality |

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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.

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**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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