Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 28

He came next into a room where a fine, clean covered bed stood, and, being tired, he lay down to rest himself a bit.

Who acts: Prince, fine clean covered bed · What happens: come, cover, stand, be, lie down, rest · To what, where: room, Prince

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, fine clean covered bed), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	next	next	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 room	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 room	det
6	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 stood	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bed	det
9	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bed	amod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fine	punct
11	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bed	amod
12	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 bed	amod
13	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stood	nsubj
14	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 room	acl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tired	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 tired	cc
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tired	punct
18	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 tired	cop
19	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 came	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 lay	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 lay	nsubj
22	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
23	down	down	ADV	_	22 lay	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 rest	mark
25	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 lay	advcl
26	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 rest	obj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 bit	det
28	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 rest	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	Prince		a room	next property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location
2	cover	participle					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	stand	past	a fine clean covered bed				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	gerund				tired property	tree rules
5	lie down	past	Prince			down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	rest	to-infinitive	Prince not said here	Prince		a bit obl	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Theme

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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