Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 66

Then, laying her ugly daughter in the bed, the old woman covered her up, even over her head; and when the King came back he wished to speak to his wife, but the old woman exclaimed, "Softly! softly! do not go near her; she is lying in a beautiful sleep, and must be kept quiet to-day."

Who acts: old woman, King, woman · What happens: lay, cover up, come back, wish, speak, exclaim · To what, where: ugly daughter, bed, daughter, beautiful sleep · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Little Men in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, King, woman), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 laying	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	laying	lay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 covered	advcl
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 daughter	nmod:poss
5	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 daughter	amod
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laying	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 bed	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bed	det
9	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laying	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 laying	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 woman	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 woman	amod
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 covered	nsubj
14	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 covered	obj
16	up	up	ADP	_	14 covered	compound:prt
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 head	punct
18	even	even	ADV	_	21 head	advmod
19	over	over	ADP	_	21 head	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 head	nmod:poss
21	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 covered	conj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 wished	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 wished	cc
24	when	when	SCONJ	_	27 came	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 King	det
26	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 came	nsubj
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 wished	advcl
28	back	back	ADV	_	27 came	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 wished	nsubj
30	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 covered	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 speak	mark
32	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 wished	xcomp
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 wife	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 wife	nmod:poss
35	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 speak	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 exclaimed	punct
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 exclaimed	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 woman	det
39	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 woman	amod
40	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 exclaimed	nsubj
41	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	50 go	advcl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 Softly	punct
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	44 Softly	punct
44	Softly	softly	ADV	_	41 exclaimed	advmod
45	!	!	PUNCT	_	44 Softly	punct
46	softly	softly	ADV	_	41 exclaimed	advmod
47	!	!	PUNCT	_	41 exclaimed	punct
48	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	50 go	aux
49	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	50 go	advmod
50	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 wished	ccomp
51	near	near	ADP	_	52 her	case
52	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 go	obl
53	;	;	PUNCT	_	56 lying	punct
54	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 lying	nsubj
55	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	56 lying	aux
56	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 covered	advcl
57	in	in	ADP	_	60 sleep	case
58	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	60 sleep	det
59	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 sleep	amod
60	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 lying	obl
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 kept	punct
62	and	and	CCONJ	_	65 kept	cc
63	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	65 kept	aux
64	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	65 kept	aux:pass
65	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 covered	conj
66	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 kept	xcomp
67	to	to	ADP	_	69 day	case
68	-	-	PUNCT	_	67 to	punct
69	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 kept	obl
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 covered	punct
71	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 covered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	gerund	the old woman not said here	Queen's ugly daughter		the bed	then		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme in bed=Destination
2	cover up	past	the old woman		daughter				vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Destination
3	come back	past	the King						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	wish	past	King						vn wish-62 «NP V that S»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	speak speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	King not said here					to King's wife	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to wife=Co-Agent
6	exclaim speech: express	participle	the old woman					softly property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
7	not go in a quote	infinitive · do-support						near woman	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near she=Location
8	lie in a quote	present · progressive	woman			a beautiful sleep			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sleep=Location
9	keep in a quote	must · passive	the old woman not said here				day	quiet property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»

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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