Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 102

Then they went to bed: but Dame Ilsabill could not sleep all night for thinking what she should be next.

Who acts: knees, Dame · What happens: go, not sleep, think, be · To what, where: bed

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Fisherman and His Wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knees, Dame), 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 went	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 bed	case
5	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 sleep	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 Dame	cc
8	Dame	Dame	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 sleep	nsubj
9	Ilsabill	Ilsabill	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Dame	flat
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 sleep	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 sleep	advmod
12	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 went	conj
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 night	det
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sleep	obl:unmarked
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 thinking	mark
16	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 sleep	advcl
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 thinking	obj
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 next	nsubj
19	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 next	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 next	cop
21	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 what	acl:relcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	knees = knee	bed	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
2	not sleep	could	Dame		night		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	think speech: other	gerund	Dame not said here				vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
4	is	should	Dame			next 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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