The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 181

Exhausted by all that had been going on round him, he flung himself on the ground and slept till the sun rose.

Who acts: youth, that, sun · What happens: exhaust, go on, fling, sleep, rise · To what, where: youth, ground

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, that, 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	Exhausted	exhaust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 flung	advcl
2	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 going	mark
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 going	det:predet
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 going	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 going	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 going	aux
7	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Exhausted	advcl
8	on	on	ADP	_	7 going	compound:prt
9	round	round	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 going	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Exhausted	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 flung	nsubj
13	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 flung	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 ground	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ground	det
17	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 flung	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 slept	cc
19	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 flung	conj
20	till	till	SCONJ	_	23 rose	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sun	det
22	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 rose	nsubj
23	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 slept	advcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 flung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	exhaust	participle	youth not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	go on	past · perfect · progressive	that			round youth	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fling	past	youth	youth	the ground		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on ground=Destination
4	sleep	past	youth not said here				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	rise	past	the sun				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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 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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