Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 62

The Tailor travelled on, always following his nose, and after he had journeyed some long distance, he came into the courtyard of a royal palace; and feeling very tired he laid himself down on the ground and went to sleep.

Who acts: Tailor · What happens: travel, follow, journey, come, feel, lay down · To what, where: nose, long distance, courtyard, Tailor, ground, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Tailor	det
2	Tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 travelled	nsubj
3	travelled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADV	_	3 travelled	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 following	punct
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 following	advmod
7	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 travelled	advcl
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 nose	nmod:poss
9	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 following	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 journeyed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 journeyed	cc
12	after	after	SCONJ	_	15 journeyed	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 journeyed	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 journeyed	aux
15	journeyed	journey	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 travelled	conj
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 distance	det
17	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 distance	amod
18	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 journeyed	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 came	nsubj
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 travelled	conj
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 courtyard	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 courtyard	det
24	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 palace	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 palace	det
27	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 palace	amod
28	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 courtyard	nmod
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 laid	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 laid	cc
31	feeling	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 laid	csubj
32	very	very	ADV	_	33 tired	advmod
33	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 feeling	xcomp
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 laid	nsubj
35	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 travelled	parataxis
36	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	35 laid	obj
37	down	down	ADP	_	35 laid	compound:prt
38	on	on	ADP	_	40 ground	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 ground	det
40	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 laid	obl
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 went	cc
42	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 laid	conj
43	to	to	ADP	_	44 sleep	case
44	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 went	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 travelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	travel	past	the Tailor				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	follow	gerund	the Tailor not said here	Tailor's nose		always property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Theme
3	journey	past · perfect	Tailor	some long distance			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme distance=Trajectory
4	come	past	Tailor		the courtyard of a royal palace		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into courtyard=Initial_Location
5	feel	gerund				tired property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
6	lay down	past	Tailor	Tailor	the ground		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on ground=Destination
7	go	past	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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