Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 25

At last, overcome by her persistent entreaties that he would take something, he lifted the glass and drank again.

Who acts: man · What happens: overcome, take, lift, drink · To what, where: last, something, glass

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Raven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 overcome	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 last	punct
4	overcome	overcome	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	8 entreaties	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 entreaties	nmod:poss
7	persistent	persistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 entreaties	amod
8	entreaties	entreaty	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 overcome	obl
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 take	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 take	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 take	aux
12	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 entreaties	acl
13	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 take	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 lifted	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 lifted	nsubj
16	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 overcome	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 glass	det
18	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lifted	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 drank	cc
20	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 lifted	conj
21	again	again	ADV	_	20 drank	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 overcome	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	overcome	participle			last		by woman's persistent entreaties	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
2	take	would	man	something				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme
3	lift	past	man	the glass				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Theme
4	drink	past	man not said here			again		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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