--- title: And now, as he had traveled a good way, and was also rather weary wi… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg976:8:108 # text = 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. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 2 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 as as SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 traveled travel VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 14 also also ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 rather rather ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 weary weary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 exertions exertion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 fight fight NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 spread spread VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 26 out out ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 29 's 's PART POS _ 28 case _ _ 30 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 31 on on ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 reclining recline VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 42 ccomp _ _ 38 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 37 obj _ _ 39 upon upon ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 42 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 43 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 42 advmod _ _ 44 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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. - ← previous: [sentence 107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/8/107/) - next →: [The Pygmies., part 3, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/9/1/) - ↑ back to [The Pygmies., part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/8/)