Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 29

She went as before to look for him, but he slept, and it was impossible to awaken him.

Who acts: woman, man · What happens: go, look, sleep, be, awaken · 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 (woman, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 before	advmod
4	before	before	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 look	mark
6	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 went	advcl
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 look	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 slept	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 slept	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 slept	nsubj
12	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 impossible	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 impossible	cc
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 impossible	expl
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 impossible	cop
17	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 slept	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 awaken	mark
19	awaken	awaken	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 impossible	csubj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 awaken	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	woman		before property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look	to-infinitive	woman not said here		for man	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for he=Theme
3	sleep	past	man			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	man not said here		impossible property	tree rules
5	awaken	to-infinitive		man		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=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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