Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 49
‘Lie down and go to sleep; I will work for you.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: lie down, go, work · To what, where: sleep
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Bird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Lie | punct |
| 2 | Lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 Lie | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 go | cc |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Lie | conj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 sleep | case |
| 7 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 work | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 work | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 work | aux |
| 11 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Lie | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 you | case |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 work | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Lie | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Lie | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie down | imperative | you not said here | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | you not said here | sleep | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | work | future | I | for you | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for you=Beneficiary |
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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