The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 26

So he kept watch half the night; but a little after midnight he was overcome by an irresistible drowsiness, and fell fast asleep.

Who acts: Szabo, irresistible drowsiness · What happens: keep, watch, overcome, fall · To what, where: Szabo

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), 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 (Szabo, irresistible drowsiness), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 kept	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kept	nsubj
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 kept	xcomp
5	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	7 night	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 night	det
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 watch	obl:unmarked
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 overcome	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 overcome	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 little	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 overcome	obl
12	after	after	ADP	_	13 midnight	case
13	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 little	nmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 overcome	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 overcome	aux:pass
16	overcome	overcome	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 kept	conj
17	by	by	ADP	_	20 drowsiness	case
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 drowsiness	det
19	irresistible	irresistible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 drowsiness	amod
20	drowsiness	drowsiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 overcome	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 fell	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 fell	cc
23	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 kept	conj
24	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 fell	advmod
25	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 fell	xcomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	Szabo				tree rules
2	watch	infinitive	Szabo not said here		night		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
3	overcome	past · passive	a irresistible drowsiness	Szabo		a little after midnight obl	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme
4	fall	past	Szabo not said here			asleep, fast property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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