Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, sentence 36

Then she asked her sister to sit down and she would sing to her, and Three-Eyes did so, for she was very tired with her long walk in the heat of the sun. Then Two-Eyes began to sing as before:

Who acts: Eye, Three Eyes, Two Eyes, sun. · What happens: ask, sit down, sing, do, be, begin · To what, where: sister, heat

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eye, Three Eyes, Two Eyes, sun.), 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 asked	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 asked	nsubj
3	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 sister	nmod:poss
5	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asked	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 sit	mark
7	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 asked	xcomp
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 sit	compound:prt
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sing	cc
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sing	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 sing	aux
12	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 sit	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 her	case
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sing	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 did	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 did	cc
17	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 Eyes	nummod
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 Three	punct
19	Eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 did	nsubj
20	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asked	conj
21	so	so	ADV	_	20 did	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 tired	punct
23	for	for	ADP	_	27 tired	case
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 tired	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 tired	cop
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 tired	advmod
27	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 asked	parataxis
28	with	with	ADP	_	31 walk	case
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 walk	nmod:poss
30	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 walk	amod
31	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tired	obl
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 heat	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 heat	det
34	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 walk	nmod
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 sun.	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 sun.	det
37	sun.	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 heat	nmod
38	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	42 began	advmod
39	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 Eyes	nummod
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 Two	punct
41	Eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 began	nsubj
42	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asked	parataxis
43	to	to	PART	_	44 sing	mark
44	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 began	xcomp
45	as	as	ADP	_	46 before	case
46	before	before	ADV	_	44 sing	obl
47	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	Eye	Eye's sister		then		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient clause=Topic
2	sit down not said to happen	to-infinitive	Eye not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sing speech: express	would	Eye	sister				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
4	do	past	Three Eyes					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	Eye				with Eye's long walk in the heat of the sun.; tired property	tree rules
6	begin	past	Two Eyes			then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	sing speech: express	to-infinitive	Two Eyes not said here					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	walk		Eye		the heat of the sun.			nom walk «act transitive»: poss=agent in=place
9	heat		the sun.					nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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