The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 132
He tried hard to keep awake, but it was of no use, and in the morning there he was again on the log, grasping the halter.
Who acts: prince, hair · What happens: try, keep, be, grasp · To what, where: log, halter
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, hair), 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 tried | nsubj |
| 2 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 tried | xcomp |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 keep | mark |
| 5 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hard | xcomp |
| 6 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 keep | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 use | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 use | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 use | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 use | cop |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 use | case |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 use | det |
| 13 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tried | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 log | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 log | cc |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 morning | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 morning | det |
| 18 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 log | obl |
| 19 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 morning | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 log | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 log | cop |
| 22 | again | again | ADV | _ | 25 log | advmod |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 log | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 log | det |
| 25 | log | log | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 use | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 grasping | punct |
| 27 | grasping | grasp | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 tried | advcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 halter | det |
| 29 | halter | halter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 grasping | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | prince | hard property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | keep | to-infinitive | prince not said here | awake property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | hair | of no use and the log | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | prince | the log | again; morning | tree rules | |||
| 5 | grasp | gerund | prince not said here | the halter | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer halter=Stimulus |
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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