Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 22

In the evening when the Sister was tired, and had said her prayers, she laid her head upon the back of the Fawn, which served for a pillow, on which she slept soundly.

Who acts: Sister, Fawn · What happens: be, say, lay, serve, sleep, pray · To what, where: prayers, head, back · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sister, Fawn), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 evening	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 evening	det
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tired	obl
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 tired	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Sister	det
6	Sister	Sister	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 tired	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tired	cop
8	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	aux
12	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 tired	conj
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 prayers	nmod:poss
14	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 said	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 laid	punct
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 laid	nsubj
17	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tired	conj
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 head	nmod:poss
19	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 laid	obj
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	22 back	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 back	det
22	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 laid	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 Fawn	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Fawn	det
25	Fawn	Fawn	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 back	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 served	punct
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 served	nsubj
28	served	serve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 Fawn	acl:relcl
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 pillow	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 pillow	det
31	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 served	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 slept	punct
33	on	on	ADP	_	34 which	case
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 slept	obl
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 slept	nsubj
36	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 served	conj
37	soundly	soundly	ADV	_	36 slept	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 tired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Sister			evening	tired property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past · perfect	the Sister not said here	Sister's prayers				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prayer=Topic
3	lay	past	Sister	Sister's head	the back of the Fawn			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme upon back=Destination
4	serve	past	the Fawn				for a pillow	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for pillow=Recipient
5	sleep	past	Sister				soundly property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	pray		Sister					nom prayer «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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