The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 49

His eyelids closed, and his head sank on his shoulders, but the thorns ran into him and were so painful that he awoke at once.

Who acts: eyelids, head, thorns, sleep · What happens: close, sink, run, be, awake · To what, where: shoulders

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyelids, head, thorns, sleep), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg640:1689): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 eyelids	nmod:poss
2	eyelids	eyelid	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 closed	nsubj
3	closed	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sank	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sank	cc
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 head	nmod:poss
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sank	nsubj
8	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 closed	conj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 shoulders	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 shoulders	nmod:poss
11	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sank	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ran	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 ran	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 thorns	det
15	thorns	thorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 ran	nsubj
16	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 closed	conj
17	into	into	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 ran	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 painful	cc
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 painful	cop
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 painful	advmod
22	painful	painful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 ran	conj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 awoke	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 awoke	nsubj
25	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 painful	ccomp
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 once	case
27	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	25 awoke	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 closed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	close	past	sleep's eyelids			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	sink	past	sleep's head	sleep's shoulders		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	run	past	the thorns		into sleep	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into he=Result
4	is	past	the thorns not said here		painful property	tree rules
5	awake	past	sleep			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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