The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 104

He managed to keep his seat for a long time, in spite of all her efforts to throw him, but at length he grew so weary that he fell fast asleep, and when he woke he found himself sitting on a log, with the halter in his hands.

Who acts: colt · What happens: manage, keep, throw, grow, fall, wake · To what, where: spite, seat, colt, length, log, efforts

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (colt), 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 managed	nsubj
2	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 keep	mark
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 managed	xcomp
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 seat	nmod:poss
6	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 time	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 time	det
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 time	amod
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 spite	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 spite	case
13	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 managed	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 efforts	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 efforts	det:predet
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 efforts	nmod:poss
17	efforts	effort	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 spite	nmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 throw	mark
19	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 managed	advcl
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 throw	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 grew	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 grew	cc
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 length	case
24	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 grew	obl
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 grew	nsubj
26	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 managed	parataxis
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 weary	advmod
28	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 grew	xcomp
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 fell	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 fell	nsubj
31	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 weary	advcl
32	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 fell	advmod
33	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 fell	xcomp
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 woke	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 woke	cc
36	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	38 woke	advmod
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 woke	nsubj
38	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 grew	parataxis
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 found	nsubj
40	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 woke	conj
41	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	40 found	obj
42	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	40 found	xcomp
43	on	on	ADP	_	45 log	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 log	det
45	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 sitting	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 halter	punct
47	with	with	ADP	_	49 halter	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 halter	det
49	halter	halter	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 sitting	obl
50	in	in	ADP	_	52 hands	case
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 hands	nmod:poss
52	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 halter	nmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 managed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	manage	past	colt		spite of mare's efforts			vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	keep	to-infinitive	colt not said here	colt's seat		time		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=Theme
3	throw	to-infinitive	colt not said here	colt				vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	grow	past	colt		length		weary property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at length=Location
5	fall	past	colt				asleep, fast property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	wake	past	colt					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	find	past	colt	colt				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute clause=Theme
8	sit	gerund	colt not said here		a log		with the halter in colt's hands	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on log=Location
9	spite			mare's efforts				nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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