Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 99

They laid themselves down to sleep again, and then the tailor threw a stone down on the second.

Who acts: branches, tailor · What happens: lay down, sleep, throw down · To what, where: branches, stone

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (branches, tailor), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laid	nsubj
2	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 laid	obj
4	down	down	ADP	_	2 laid	compound:prt
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sleep	mark
6	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 laid	advcl
7	again	again	ADV	_	6 sleep	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 threw	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 threw	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 threw	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tailor	det
12	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 threw	nsubj
13	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laid	parataxis
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 stone	det
15	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 threw	obj
16	down	down	ADV	_	13 threw	advmod
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 second	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 second	det
19	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 threw	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	lay down	past	branches = branch	branches = branch			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Result
2	sleep	to-infinitive	branches = branch not said here		again		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	throw down	past	the tailor	a stone	then	on the second; down property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stone=Theme on second=Destination

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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