Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 19

So she tried all the little beds; and one was too long, and another was too short, till, at last, the seventh suited her; and there she laid herself down and went to sleep.

Who acts: spruce, one, another, seventh · What happens: try, be, suit, lay down, go · To what, where: little beds, spruce, sleep

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little Snow White. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spruce, one, another, seventh), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 tried	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tried	nsubj
3	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 beds	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 beds	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 beds	amod
7	beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tried	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 long	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 long	cc
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 long	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 long	cop
12	too	too	ADV	_	13 long	advmod
13	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tried	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 short	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 short	cc
16	another	another	PRON	PronType=Ind	19 short	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 short	cop
18	too	too	ADV	_	19 short	advmod
19	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 long	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 till	punct
21	till	till	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 short	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 last	punct
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 last	case
24	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 long	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 suited	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 seventh	det
27	seventh	seventh	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 suited	nsubj
28	suited	suit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 long	conj
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 suited	obj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 laid	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 there	cc
32	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 laid	advmod
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 laid	nsubj
34	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tried	conj
35	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	34 laid	obj
36	down	down	ADP	_	34 laid	compound:prt
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 went	cc
38	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 laid	conj
39	to	to	ADP	_	40 sleep	case
40	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 went	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	try	past	spruce	all little beds			vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Eventuality
2	is	past	one			long property	tree rules
3	is	past	another			short property	tree rules
4	be		one not said here				tree rules
5	suit	past	the seventh	spruce			tree rules
6	lay down	past	spruce	spruce	there		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Result
7	go	past	spruce not said here		sleep		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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