The Yellow Fairy Book, The Death of the Sun-hero (27), sentence 33

Then the Sun-Hero strove with all his might and kept the black wolves at bay, and conquered his desire to sleep; but on the eighth night his strength failed him, and he fell fast asleep.

Who acts: Sun Hero, strength, sun · What happens: strive, keep, conquer, sleep, fail, fall · To what, where: black wolves, bay, desire, sun

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of the Sun-hero (27). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sun Hero, strength, sun), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 strove	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Hero	det
3	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Hero	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Sun	punct
5	Hero	Hero	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 strove	nsubj
6	strove	strive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	with	with	SCONJ	_	10 might	mark
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 might	det:predet
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 might	nmod:poss
10	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 strove	advcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 kept	cc
12	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 strove	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wolves	det
14	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 wolves	amod
15	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 kept	obj
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 bay	case
17	bay	bay	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kept	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 conquered	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 conquered	cc
20	conquered	conquer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 strove	parataxis
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 desire	nmod:poss
22	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 conquered	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 sleep	mark
24	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 conquered	advcl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 failed	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 failed	cc
27	on	on	ADP	_	30 night	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 night	det
29	eighth	eighth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 night	amod
30	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 failed	obl
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 strength	nmod:poss
32	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 failed	nsubj
33	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 strove	conj
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 failed	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 fell	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 fell	cc
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 fell	nsubj
38	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 strove	conj
39	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	38 fell	advmod
40	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 fell	xcomp
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 strove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strive	past	the Sun Hero			then		tree rules
2	keep	past	the Sun Hero not said here	the black wolves	bay			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent wolf=Theme at bay=Location
3	conquer	past		sun's desire				vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Patient
4	sleep	to-infinitive						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	fail	past	sun's strength	sun		night		vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality
6	fall	past	strength				asleep, fast property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	desire		sun					nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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