Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 57
And soon the Giant pointed out a bed where he could lie down and go to sleep.
Who acts: Tailor · What happens: point out, lie down, go · To what, where: Giant pointed bed, sleep
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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 bed | cc |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 bed | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bed | det |
| 4 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bed | amod |
| 5 | pointed | point | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 bed | amod |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 pointed | compound:prt |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bed | det |
| 8 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lie | obl |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 lie | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 lie | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 lie | aux |
| 12 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 lie | compound:prt |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 go | cc |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 lie | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 sleep | case |
| 17 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 go | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 lie | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | point out | participle | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | lie down | could | Tailor | the Giant pointed bed | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | Tailor 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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