The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 124

But the wife had walked far, and was very tired, and strive as she would, she fell sound asleep.

Who acts: wife · What happens: walk, be, strive, fall, sound

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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	_	5 walked	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wife	det
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 walked	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 walked	aux
5	walked	walk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 walked	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tired	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 tired	cc
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 tired	cop
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 tired	advmod
11	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 walked	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 strive	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 strive	cc
14	strive	strive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 walked	advcl
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 would	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 would	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 strive	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 would	punct
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 fell	nsubj
20	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 would	acl:relcl
21	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 fell	xcomp
22	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 sound	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	walk	past · perfect	the wife	far property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the wife not said here	tired property	tree rules
3	strive	infinitive	the wife not said here		tree rules
4	fall	past	wife		vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	sound	infinitive	wife not said here	asleep property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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