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title: She found him sleeping heavily, and all her efforts to awaken him we… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She found him sleeping heavily, and all her efforts to awaken him were of no avail. Who acts: woman, man, efforts. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Raven, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 37

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She found him sleeping heavily, and all her efforts to awaken him were of no avail.

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**Who acts:** woman, man, efforts · **What happens:** find, sleep, awaken, be · **To what, where:** man

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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 (woman, man, efforts), 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:pg2591:47:37
# text = She found him sleeping heavily, and all her efforts to awaken him were of no avail.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	xcomp	_	_
5	heavily	heavily	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	efforts	effort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	awaken	awaken	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
17	avail	avail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | woman | man |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **sleep** | gerund | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | heavily *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **awaken** | to-infinitive | woman's efforts | man |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme |
| 4 | **be** | past | woman's efforts *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of no avail | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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