Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 4

By the evening they came into a large forest, and laid themselves down in a hollow tree, and went to sleep.

Who acts: roads · What happens: come, lay down, go · To what, where: large forest, roads, hollow tree, sleep

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 (roads), 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	By	by	ADP	_	3 evening	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 evening	det
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	9 forest	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 forest	det
8	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 forest	amod
9	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 laid	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 laid	cc
12	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
13	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 laid	obj
14	down	down	ADP	_	12 laid	compound:prt
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 tree	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 tree	det
17	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 tree	amod
18	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 laid	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 went	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 went	cc
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 sleep	case
23	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 went	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	come	past	roads = road		a large forest	evening	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial_Location
2	lay down	past	roads = road not said here	roads = road	a hollow tree		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme in tree=Destination
3	go	past	roads = road not said here		sleep		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_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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