Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 46

Once more the night came on, and worn out he lay down under a bush and fell asleep.

Who acts: night, man · What happens: come on, wear out, lie down, fall · To what, where: bush

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 (night, 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 more	advmod
2	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 came	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 night	det
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lay	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 lay	cc
9	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 lay	advcl
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 worn	compound:prt
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lay	nsubj
12	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	parataxis
13	down	down	ADP	_	12 lay	compound:prt
14	under	under	ADP	_	16 bush	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 bush	det
16	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lay	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 fell	cc
18	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 lay	conj
19	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 fell	xcomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	come on	past	the night			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wear out	participle	man not said here			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
3	lie down	past	man	a bush		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under bush=Location
4	fall	past	man not said here		asleep 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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