English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 23

Dick now tried to rise, but was obliged to lie down again, being too weak to stand, for he had not eaten any food for three days, and was no longer able to run about and beg a halfpenny of people in the street.

Who acts: Dick · What happens: try, rise, oblige, lie down, be, stand · To what, where: food, halfpenny

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dick), 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	Dick	Dick	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 tried	nsubj
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 tried	advmod
3	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 rise	mark
5	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tried	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 obliged	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 obliged	cc
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 obliged	aux:pass
9	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 tried	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 lie	mark
11	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 obliged	xcomp
12	down	down	ADP	_	11 lie	compound:prt
13	again	again	ADV	_	11 lie	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 weak	punct
15	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 weak	cop
16	too	too	ADV	_	17 weak	advmod
17	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 obliged	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 stand	mark
19	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 weak	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 eaten	punct
21	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 eaten	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 eaten	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 eaten	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 eaten	advmod
25	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 weak	parataxis
26	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	27 food	det
27	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 eaten	obj
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 days	case
29	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 days	nummod
30	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 eaten	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 able	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 able	cc
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 able	cop
34	no	no	ADV	_	35 longer	advmod
35	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	36 able	advmod
36	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tried	parataxis
37	to	to	PART	_	38 run	mark
38	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 able	xcomp
39	about	about	ADV	_	38 run	advmod
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 beg	cc
41	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 run	conj
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 halfpenny	det
43	halfpenny	halfpenny	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 beg	obj
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 people	case
45	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 halfpenny	nmod
46	in	in	ADP	_	48 street	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 street	det
48	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 people	nmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	Dick		now		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	rise not said to happen	to-infinitive	Dick not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	oblige	past · passive	Dick not said here				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: clause=Result
4	lie down	to-infinitive	Dick not said here		again		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	gerund	Dick not said here			weak property	tree rules
6	stand	to-infinitive	Dick not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	not eat	past · perfect	Dick	any food	day		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient
8	is	past				able, long property	tree rules
9	run about	to-infinitive				about property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	beg speech: request	infinitive		a halfpenny of people in the street			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent halfpenny=Recipient

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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