Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 27

He had not been there long before he began to feel so tired that his limbs seemed hardly able to support him, and he could not stand upright any longer; so again he lay down and fell fast asleep.

Who acts: man, limbs · What happens: have, not be, begin, feel, seem, support · To what, where: man

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, limbs), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 there	advmod
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 there	cop
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 had	advmod
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 began	advmod
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 began	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 began	nsubj
9	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	advcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 feel	mark
11	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 began	xcomp
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 tired	advmod
13	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 feel	xcomp
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 seemed	mark
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 limbs	nmod:poss
16	limbs	limb	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 seemed	nsubj
17	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 tired	advcl
18	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	19 able	advmod
19	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 seemed	xcomp
20	to	to	PART	_	21 support	mark
21	support	support	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 able	xcomp
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 support	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 stand	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 stand	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 stand	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 stand	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 stand	advmod
28	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	conj
29	upright	upright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 stand	xcomp
30	any	any	ADV	_	31 longer	advmod
31	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 stand	advmod
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 lay	punct
33	so	so	ADV	_	34 again	advmod
34	again	again	ADV	_	36 lay	advmod
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 lay	nsubj
36	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
37	down	down	ADV	_	36 lay	advmod
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 fell	cc
39	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 lay	conj
40	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	39 fell	advmod
41	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 fell	xcomp
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	man				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not is	participle				there property	tree rules
3	begin	past	man			long property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	feel	to-infinitive	man not said here			tired property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	seem	past	man's limbs			able property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
6	support	to-infinitive	man's limbs not said here	man			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
7	not stand	could	man			long, upright property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	lie down	past	man		again	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	fall	past	man not said here			asleep, fast property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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