Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 56
Soon they got so tired that they could not drag themselves along, so they lay down under a tree and went to sleep.
Who acts: wood · What happens: get, not drag, lay down, go · To what, where: wood, tree, sleep
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Hansel and Grethel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wood), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 tired | advmod |
| 5 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 got | xcomp |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 drag | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 drag | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 drag | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 drag | advmod |
| 10 | drag | drag | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 tired | advcl |
| 11 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 drag | obj |
| 12 | along | along | ADV | _ | 10 drag | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lay | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 lay | advmod |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 lay | nsubj |
| 16 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | parataxis |
| 17 | down | down | ADV | _ | 16 lay | advmod |
| 18 | under | under | ADP | _ | 20 tree | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 tree | det |
| 20 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lay | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 went | cc |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 sleep | case |
| 24 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 went | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | wood | soon, tired property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | not drag | could | wood | wood | along property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme | |||
| 3 | lay down | present | wood | a tree | down property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent under tree=Destination | |||
| 4 | go | past | wood 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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