Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 34
And as they had been sitting such a long time, their eyes closed with fatigue, and they fell fast asleep.
Who acts: flames · What happens: sit, close, fall · To what, where: eyes
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Hansel and Gretel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flames), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 sitting | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 sitting | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sitting | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sitting | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 sitting | aux |
| 6 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 time | det:predet |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 time | amod |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sitting | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 eyes | punct |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sitting | parataxis |
| 14 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 eyes | acl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 fatigue | case |
| 16 | fatigue | fatigue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 closed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fell | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 fell | cc |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 fell | nsubj |
| 20 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sitting | conj |
| 21 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 fell | advmod |
| 22 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 fell | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sitting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past · perfect · progressive | flames = flame | time | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | close | participle | flames's eyes not said here | with fatigue | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with fatigue=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | flames = flame | asleep, fast property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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