Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 37

She found him sleeping heavily, and all her efforts to awaken him were of no avail.

Who acts: woman, man, efforts · What happens: find, sleep, awaken, be · 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, efforts), 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 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	obj
4	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 found	xcomp
5	heavily	heavily	ADV	_	4 sleeping	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 awaken	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 awaken	cc
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 efforts	det:predet
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 efforts	nmod:poss
10	efforts	effort	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 awaken	nsubj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 awaken	mark
12	awaken	awaken	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 found	parataxis
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 awaken	obj
14	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 awaken	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 avail	case
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 avail	det
17	avail	avail	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 were	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find	past	woman	man		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme
2	sleep	gerund	man not said here		heavily property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	awaken	to-infinitive	woman's efforts	man		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme
4	be	past	woman's efforts not said here		of no avail	vn exist-47.1 «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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