Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 58

The bed, however, was too large for him, so he crept out of it, and lay down in a corner.

Who acts: bed, Tailor · What happens: be, creep out, lay down · To what, where: bed, corner

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 (bed, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bed	det
2	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 large	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 bed	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	8 large	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 large	cop
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 large	advmod
8	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 large	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 crept	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 crept	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 crept	nsubj
14	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 large	conj
15	out	out	ADP	_	17 it	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 crept	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lay	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 lay	cc
20	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 large	conj
21	down	down	ADV	_	20 lay	advmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 corner	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 corner	det
24	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lay	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 large	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the bed			for Tailor; however, large property	tree rules
2	creep out	past	Tailor	bed			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location it=Theme
3	lay down	infinitive	the bed not said here		a corner	down property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in corner=Destination

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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