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title: Suddenly a feeling of fatigue came over him, and unable to resist it… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Suddenly a feeling of fatigue came over him, and unable to resist it, he lay down for a little while, fully determined, however, to keep awake; but in another minute his eyes closed of their own accord, and he fell into such a deep sleep, that all the noises in the world would not have awakened him.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 20

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Suddenly a feeling of fatigue came over him, and unable to resist it, he lay down for a little while, fully determined, however, to keep awake; but in another minute his eyes closed of their own accord, and he fell into such a deep sleep, that all the noises in the world would not have awakened him.

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**Who acts:** feeling, man, eyes · **What happens:** come, resist, lie down, keep, close, fall · **To what, where:** feeling, deep sleep, noises

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Raven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feeling, man, eyes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2591:47:20
# text = Suddenly a feeling of fatigue came over him, and unable to resist it, he lay down for a little while, fully determined, however, to keep awake; but in another minute his eyes closed of their own accord, and he fell into such a deep sleep, that all the noises in the world would not have awakened him.
1	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	fatigue	fatigue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	resist	resist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
18	down	down	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	fully	fully	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	determined	determined	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	however	however	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
31	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
33	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	36	det	_	_
36	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
39	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
42	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	accord	accord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
46	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
48	into	into	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
49	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	52	det:predet	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
54	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	64	mark	_	_
55	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	57	det:predet	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	noises	noise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	64	nsubj:pass	_	_
58	in	in	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nmod	_	_
61	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	64	aux	_	_
62	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	64	advmod	_	_
63	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	64	aux	_	_
64	awakened	awaken	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	47	conj	_	_
65	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	64	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | a feeling of fatigue |  |  |  |  | over man; suddenly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme over he=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **resist** | to-infinitive | a feeling of fatigue *not said here* | feeling |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lie down** | past | man |  |  |  | while | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **keep** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | awake *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **close** | participle | man's eyes |  |  |  | minute | of eyes's own accord | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **fall** | past | man |  |  |  |  | into such deep sleep *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into sleep=Result |
| 7 | **not** **awaken** | would · perfect · passive |  | all noises in the world |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**Text:** «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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