--- title: Again he managed to stick on till midnight: then a sleep overtook hi… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Again he managed to stick on till midnight: then a sleep overtook him that he could not battle against, and when he woke up he found himself, as before, sitting on the log, with the halter in his hands. Who acts: prince, sleep. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/7/120/) [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/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/7/) / 120 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 120 Again he managed to stick on till midnight: then a sleep overtook him that he could not battle against, and when he woke up he found himself, as before, sitting on the log, with the halter in his hands. **Who acts:** prince, sleep · **What happens:** manage, stick, overtake, not battle, wake up, find · **To what, where:** prince, log This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, sleep), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg641:7:120 # text = Again he managed to stick on till midnight: then a sleep overtook him that he could not battle against, and when he woke up he found himself, as before, sitting on the log, with the halter in his hands. 1 Again again ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 managed manage VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 stick stick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 till till ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 midnight midnight NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 10 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 13 advmod _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 overtook overtake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 that that SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 battle battle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 20 against against ADP IN _ 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 23 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 25 advmod _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 woke wake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 26 up up ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 29 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 as as ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 before before ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 sitting sit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 advcl _ _ 35 on on ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 log log NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 with with ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 halter halter NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 42 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **manage** | past | prince | | | | again | | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **stick** | to-infinitive | prince *not said here* | | | | midnight | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **overtake** | past | a sleep | prince | | | then | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **battle** | could | prince | | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **wake up** | past | prince | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **find** | past | prince | prince | | | | before *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | | 7 | **sit** | gerund | prince *not said here* | | | the log | | with the halter in prince's hands | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on log=Location | 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/7/119/) - next →: [sentence 121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/7/121/) - ↑ back to [The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/7/)