Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 85

But after drinking two glasses, John became so sleepy, that he could not keep his eyes open, and fell fast asleep.

Who acts: John · What happens: drink, become, not keep, fall · To what, where: two glasses, eyes

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 became	cc
2	after	after	SCONJ	_	3 drinking	mark
3	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 became	advcl
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 glasses	nummod
5	glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 drinking	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 drinking	punct
7	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 became	nsubj
8	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 sleepy	advmod
10	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 became	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 keep	punct
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 keep	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 keep	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 keep	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 keep	advmod
16	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 became	advcl
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 eyes	nmod:poss
18	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 keep	obj
19	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 keep	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 fell	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 fell	cc
22	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 became	conj
23	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 fell	advmod
24	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 fell	xcomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	drink	gerund	John not said here	two glasses		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Patient
2	become	past	John		sleepy property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	not keep	could	John	John's eyes	open property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
4	fall	past	John 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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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