The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 67

He tried to eat his supper, but could not; he went to bed shaking with fever.

Who acts: Count · What happens: try, eat, go, shake · To what, where: supper, bed

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Count), 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	2 tried	nsubj
2	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 eat	mark
4	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tried	xcomp
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 supper	nmod:poss
6	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eat	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 could	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 could	cc
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 eat	advcl
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 could	advmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tried	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 bed	case
15	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
16	shaking	shake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 went	advcl
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 fever	case
18	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 shaking	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	try	past	Count				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive	Count not said here	Count's supper			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Patient
3	go	past	Count		bed		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
4	shake	gerund	Count not said here			with fever	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with fever=Co-Patient

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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