Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 15

He was so tired that he could scarcely resist lying down at his full length to sleep, although the ground was flooded with the rain.

Who acts: rain · What happens: be, resist, lie down, sleep, flood · To what, where: full length, ground

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XII. Evil Powers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rain), 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	4 tired	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tired	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 tired	advmod
4	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 resist	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 resist	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 resist	aux
8	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	9 resist	advmod
9	resist	resist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tired	advcl
10	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 resist	xcomp
11	down	down	ADV	_	10 lying	advmod
12	at	at	ADP	_	15 length	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 length	nmod:poss
14	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 length	amod
15	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lying	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 sleep	mark
17	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 length	acl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 flooded	punct
19	although	although	SCONJ	_	23 flooded	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ground	det
21	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 flooded	nsubj:pass
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 flooded	aux:pass
23	flooded	flood	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 resist	conj
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 rain	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 rain	det
26	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 flooded	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	rain			tired property	tree rules
2	resist	could	rain			scarcely property	tree rules
3	lie down	gerund	rain not said here		rain's full length	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at length=Location
4	sleep	to-infinitive	rain not said here				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	flood	past · passive		the ground		with the rain	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with rain=Instrument

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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