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title: Now this King went and laid him down to rest at a place where four r… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now this King went and laid him down to rest at a place where four roads met, so that every one who passed had to step over him. Who acts: King, four roads, one. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 14

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Now this King went and laid him down to rest at a place where four roads met, so that every one who passed had to step over him.

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**Who acts:** King, four roads, one · **What happens:** go, lay down, rest, meet, pass, have · **To what, where:** King, place

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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 (King, four roads, one), 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:pg7128:25:14
# text = Now this King went and laid him down to rest at a place where four roads met, so that every one who passed had to step over him.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	down	down	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
15	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	25	mark	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	step	step	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	over	over	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | this King |  |  |  | now |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lay down** | past | this King *not said here* | King |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Result |
| 3 | **rest** | to-infinitive | this King *not said here* |  |  | a place |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at place=Location |
| 4 | **meet** | past | four roads |  |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **pass** | past | every one |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **have** | past | every one |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **step** | to-infinitive | every one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | over King | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over he=Trajectory |

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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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