The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 28

He could hardly draw breath he was so worn out, and his mouth was parched by thirst.

Who acts: youth, thirst · What happens: draw, wear out, parch · To what, where: breath, youth, mouth

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (youth, thirst), 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 draw	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 draw	aux
3	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	4 draw	advmod
4	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 draw	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 worn	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 worn	aux:pass
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 worn	advmod
9	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 draw	ccomp
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 worn	compound:prt
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 parched	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 parched	cc
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mouth	nmod:poss
14	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 parched	nsubj:pass
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 parched	aux:pass
16	parched	parch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 worn	conj
17	by	by	ADP	_	18 thirst	case
18	thirst	thirst	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 parched	obl:agent
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 draw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	draw	could	youth	breath	hardly property	tree rules
2	wear out	past · passive		youth		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source
3	parch	past · passive	thirst	youth's mouth		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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