---
title: He was so tired that he could scarcely resist lying down at his full… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He was so tired that he could scarcely resist lying down at his full length to sleep, although the ground was flooded with the rain. Who acts: rain. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/15/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [XII. Evil Powers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/) / 15

# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 15

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
He was so tired that he could scarcely resist lying down at his full length to sleep, although the ground was flooded with the rain.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** rain · **What happens:** be, resist, lie down, sleep, flood · **To what, where:** full length, ground

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XII. Evil Powers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rain), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg27200:63:15
# text = He was so tired that he could scarcely resist lying down at his full length to sleep, although the ground was flooded with the rain.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	resist	resist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
10	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	xcomp	_	_
11	down	down	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	flooded	flood	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | rain |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **resist** | could | rain |  |  |  |  | scarcely *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **lie down** | gerund | rain *not said here* |  |  | rain's full length |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at length=Location |
| 4 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | rain *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **flood** | past · passive |  | the ground |  |  |  | with the rain | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with rain=Instrument |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**Text:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/14/)
- next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/16/)
- ↑ back to [XII. Evil Powers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/)