Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 92

So they argued for a few minutes; but, both being very weary with the day's work, they soon went to sleep again.

Who acts: horsemen, both, day · What happens: argue, be, go, sleep, work

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 (horsemen, both, day), 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 argued	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 argued	nsubj
3	argued	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 minutes	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 minutes	det
6	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 minutes	amod
7	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 argued	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 weary	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 weary	cc
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 but	punct
11	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	14 weary	nsubj
12	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 weary	cop
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 weary	advmod
14	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 argued	conj
15	with	with	ADP	_	19 work	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 day	det
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 work	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 day	case
19	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 weary	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 went	punct
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 went	nsubj
22	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 went	advmod
23	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 argued	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 sleep	mark
25	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 went	xcomp
26	again	again	ADV	_	25 sleep	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 argued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	past	horsemen = horseman	minute		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	gerund	both		with the day's work; weary property	tree rules
3	go	past	horsemen = horseman		soon property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	sleep	to-infinitive	horsemen = horseman not said here	again		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	work		the day			nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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