The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 76

He reminded himself that he must get back to his mother, but whenever he tried to rouse himself to go he sank back again drowsily, and at last he fell sound asleep in the corner of the sofa.

Who acts: scent · What happens: remind, get back, try, rouse, go, sink back · To what, where: scent, last, corner

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, 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 (scent), 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 reminded	nsubj
2	reminded	remind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 reminded	obj
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 get	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 get	nsubj
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 get	aux
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 reminded	advcl
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 get	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 mother	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mother	nmod:poss
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 back	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 tried	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 tried	cc
14	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 tried	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tried	nsubj
16	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 reminded	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 rouse	mark
18	rouse	rouse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 tried	xcomp
19	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 rouse	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 go	mark
21	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 rouse	advcl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 sank	nsubj
23	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 go	ccomp
24	back	back	ADV	_	23 sank	advmod
25	again	again	ADV	_	26 drowsily	advmod
26	drowsily	drowsily	ADV	_	23 sank	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 fell	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 fell	cc
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 last	case
30	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fell	obl
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 fell	nsubj
32	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 reminded	conj
33	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 fell	xcomp
34	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 sound	xcomp
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 corner	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 corner	det
37	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sound	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 sofa	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 sofa	det
40	sofa	sofa	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 corner	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reminded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	remind speech: other	past	scent	scent			vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient
2	get back	must	scent				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	try	past	scent			whenever property	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	rouse not said to happen	to-infinitive	scent not said here	scent			vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
5	go	to-infinitive	scent not said here				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	sink back	past	scent			drowsily property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	fall	past	scent		last		vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
8	sound	infinitive	scent not said here		the corner of the sofa	asleep property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in corner=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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