The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 110

So saying, he waved his wand over her, and in spite of her utmost efforts to keep awake she sank into a profound and dreamless slumber.

Who acts: absence, spite · What happens: say, wave, keep, sink, spite · To what, where: wand, spite, utmost efforts · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (absence, spite), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 saying	advmod
2	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 waved	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 saying	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 waved	nsubj
5	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wand	nmod:poss
7	wand	wand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 waved	obj
8	over	over	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 waved	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sank	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sank	cc
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 spite	case
13	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sank	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 efforts	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 efforts	nmod:poss
16	utmost	utmost	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 efforts	amod
17	efforts	effort	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 spite	nmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 keep	mark
19	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 efforts	acl
20	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 keep	xcomp
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 sank	nsubj
22	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 waved	advcl
23	into	into	ADP	_	25 profound	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 profound	det
25	profound	profound	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sank	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 slumber	cc
27	dreamless	dreamless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 slumber	amod
28	slumber	slumber	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 profound	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 waved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund	absence not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	wave	past	absence	absence's wand		over Princess	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wand=Patient
3	keep	to-infinitive	spite not said here			awake property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	sink	past	spite		spite of spite's utmost efforts	into a profound and dreamless slumber	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	spite			spite's utmost 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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