Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 10

No mischance befell them; if benighted in the wood, they lay down on the moss to repose and sleep till the morning; and their mother was satisfied as to their safety, and felt no fear about them.

Who acts: mischance, children, mother · What happens: befall, benight, lay down, repose, sleep, be · To what, where: children, wood, moss, fear

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mischance, children, mother), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 mischance	det
2	mischance	mischance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 befell	nsubj
3	befell	befall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 befell	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 benighted	punct
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 benighted	mark
7	benighted	benight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 befell	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 wood	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wood	det
10	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 benighted	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lay	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 lay	nsubj
13	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 benighted	conj
14	down	down	ADV	_	13 lay	advmod
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 moss	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 moss	det
17	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lay	obl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 repose	mark
19	repose	repose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 lay	advcl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sleep	cc
21	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 repose	conj
22	till	till	ADP	_	24 morning	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 morning	det
24	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sleep	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 satisfied	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 satisfied	cc
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 mother	nmod:poss
28	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 satisfied	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 satisfied	cop
30	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 befell	conj
31	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	34 safety	case
32	to	to	ADP	_	31 as	fixed
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 safety	nmod:poss
34	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 satisfied	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 felt	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 felt	cc
37	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 befell	conj
38	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	39 fear	det
39	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 felt	obj
40	about	about	ADP	_	41 them	case
41	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 felt	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 befell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	befall	past	no mischance	children = child				tree rules
2	benight a condition, not said to happen	participle	no mischance not said here		the wood			tree rules
3	lay down	present	children = child		the moss		down property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on moss=Destination
4	repose	to-infinitive	children = child not said here					vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	sleep	infinitive	children = child not said here			morning		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	children's mother				as children's safety; satisfied property	tree rules
7	feel	past	no mischance not said here	no fear			about children = child	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fear=Theme about they=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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