The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 102

But he was very sleepy, and in spite of all his efforts he felt he could not keep awake much longer, when he heard the sound of the robbers returning, shouting and singing as they marched along.

Who acts: Prince, robbers · What happens: be, feel, not keep, hear, return, shout · To what, where: spite, sound, efforts

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, robbers), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 sleepy	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sleepy	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sleepy	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 sleepy	advmod
5	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 felt	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 felt	cc
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 spite	case
9	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 felt	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 efforts	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 efforts	det:predet
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 efforts	nmod:poss
13	efforts	effort	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 spite	nmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 felt	nsubj
15	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sleepy	parataxis
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 keep	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 keep	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 keep	advmod
19	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 felt	ccomp
20	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 keep	xcomp
21	much	much	ADV	_	22 longer	advmod
22	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 keep	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 heard	punct
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 heard	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 heard	nsubj
26	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 felt	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sound	det
28	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 heard	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 robbers	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 robbers	det
31	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 sound	nmod
32	returning	return	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 robbers	acl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 shouting	punct
34	shouting	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 returning	conj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 singing	cc
36	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 returning	conj
37	as	as	SCONJ	_	39 marched	mark
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 marched	nsubj
39	marched	march	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 singing	advcl
40	along	along	ADV	_	39 marched	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sleepy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Prince			sleepy property	tree rules
2	feel	past	Prince		spite of Prince's efforts		vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not keep	could	Prince			awake, long property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	hear	past	Prince	the sound of the robbers			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus
5	return	gerund	the robbers not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	shout speech: express	gerund	the robbers not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	sing speech: express	gerund	the robbers not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	march	past	robbers = robber			along property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	spite			Prince's efforts			nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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