Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 17
Then he laid himself down on his bed, and in a little while began to snore very loud as if he was fast asleep.
Who acts: king · What happens: lay down, begin, snore, be · To what, where: king, bed
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 laid | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 laid | nsubj |
| 3 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 laid | obj |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 laid | compound:prt |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 bed | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 bed | nmod:poss |
| 8 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 laid | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 began | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 began | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 while | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 while | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 while | amod |
| 14 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 began | obl |
| 15 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 laid | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 snore | mark |
| 17 | snore | snore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 began | xcomp |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 loud | advmod |
| 19 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 snore | xcomp |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 asleep | mark |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 asleep | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 asleep | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 asleep | cop |
| 24 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 asleep | advmod |
| 25 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 loud | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay down | past | king | king | king's bed | then | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on bed=Destination | ||
| 2 | begin | past | king not said here | while | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | snore | to-infinitive | king not said here | loud property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | past | king | asleep, fast property | tree rules |
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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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