The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 120

Again he managed to stick on till midnight: then a sleep overtook him that he could not battle against, and when he woke up he found himself, as before, sitting on the log, with the halter in his hands.

Who acts: prince, sleep · What happens: manage, stick, overtake, not battle, wake up, find · To what, where: prince, log

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 (prince, sleep), 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	Again	again	ADV	_	3 managed	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 managed	nsubj
3	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 stick	mark
5	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 managed	xcomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 midnight	case
7	till	till	ADP	_	8 midnight	case
8	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stick	obl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 overtook	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 overtook	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 sleep	det
12	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 overtook	nsubj
13	overtook	overtake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 managed	parataxis
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 overtook	obj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 battle	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 battle	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 battle	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 battle	advmod
19	battle	battle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 overtook	advcl
20	against	against	ADP	_	19 battle	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 found	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 found	cc
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 woke	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 woke	nsubj
25	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 found	advcl
26	up	up	ADP	_	25 woke	compound:prt
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 found	nsubj
28	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 managed	parataxis
29	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 found	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 before	punct
31	as	as	ADP	_	32 before	case
32	before	before	ADV	_	28 found	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 sitting	punct
34	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 found	advcl
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 log	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 log	det
37	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sitting	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 halter	punct
39	with	with	ADP	_	41 halter	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 halter	det
41	halter	halter	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sitting	obl
42	in	in	ADP	_	44 hands	case
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 hands	nmod:poss
44	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 halter	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 managed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	manage	past	prince			again		vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	stick	to-infinitive	prince not said here			midnight		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	overtake	past	a sleep	prince		then		tree rules
4	not battle	could	prince					vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	wake up	past	prince					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	find	past	prince	prince			before property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
7	sit	gerund	prince not said here		the log		with the halter in prince's hands	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on log=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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