Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 123

In the evening at their usual time they went to bed, and when his wife thought he slept she got up, opened the door, and laid herself down again.

Who acts: servants, wife, Tailor · What happens: go, think, sleep, get up, open, lay down · To what, where: bed, door, wife

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants, wife, Tailor), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 evening	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 evening	det
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl
4	at	at	ADP	_	7 time	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 time	nmod:poss
6	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 time	amod
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 bed	case
11	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 slept	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 slept	cc
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 thought	advmod
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 wife	nmod:poss
16	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 thought	nsubj
17	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 slept	advcl
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 slept	nsubj
19	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 went	conj
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 got	nsubj
21	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 slept	parataxis
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 got	compound:prt
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 opened	punct
24	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 got	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 door	det
26	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 opened	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 laid	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 laid	cc
29	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 went	conj
30	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 laid	obj
31	down	down	ADP	_	29 laid	compound:prt
32	again	again	ADV	_	29 laid	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	go	past	servants = servant		bed	evening; time	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
2	think speech: other	past	Tailor's wife				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sleep	past	Tailor				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	get up	past	wife				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	open	past	wife not said here	the door			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
6	lay down	past	servants = servant not said here	wife		again	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Result

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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