Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 88

So they laid themselves down again to sleep, and presently the Tailor threw a stone down upon the other. "

Who acts: branches, Tailor · What happens: lay down, sleep, throw down · To what, where: branches, stone, other

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 (branches, 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 laid	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 laid	nsubj
3	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 laid	obj
5	down	down	ADP	_	3 laid	compound:prt
6	again	again	ADV	_	3 laid	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 sleep	mark
8	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 laid	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 threw	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 threw	cc
11	presently	presently	ADV	_	14 threw	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Tailor	det
13	Tailor	Tailor	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 threw	nsubj
14	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laid	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 stone	det
16	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 threw	obj
17	down	down	ADV	_	14 threw	advmod
18	upon	upon	ADP	_	20 other	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 other	det
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 threw	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laid	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay down	past	branches = branch	branches = branch		again		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Result
2	sleep	to-infinitive	branches = branch not said here					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	throw down	past	the Tailor	a stone	the other		down, presently property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stone=Theme upon other=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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