The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 82
But then he himself was so worn out and weak that he could not move at all.
Who acts: Troll · What happens: wear out, not move · To what, where: Troll, all
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Troll), 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 | _ | 7 worn | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 worn | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 worn | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 3 he | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 worn | aux:pass |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 worn | advmod |
| 7 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 worn | compound:prt |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 weak | cc |
| 10 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 worn | conj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 move | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 move | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 move | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 move | advmod |
| 15 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 weak | advcl |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 all | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 move | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 worn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear out | past · passive | Troll | then | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source | ||||
| 2 | not move | could | Troll | all | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at all=Trajectory |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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