Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 65

And as they were so weary that their legs would carry them no longer, they lay down beneath a tree and fell asleep.

Who acts: Hansel, legs · What happens: be, carry, lay down, fall · To what, where: Hansel, tree

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 (Hansel, legs), 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	_	11 carry	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 weary	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 weary	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 weary	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 weary	advmod
6	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 carry	advcl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 carry	mark
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 legs	nmod:poss
9	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 carry	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 carry	aux
11	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 carry	obj
13	no	no	ADV	_	14 longer	advmod
14	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 carry	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lay	punct
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 lay	nsubj
17	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 carry	parataxis
18	down	down	ADV	_	17 lay	advmod
19	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	21 tree	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 tree	det
21	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lay	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 fell	cc
23	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 lay	conj
24	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 fell	xcomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 carry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Hansel			weary property	tree rules
2	carry	would	Hansel's legs	Hansel		long property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	lay down	present	Hansel		a tree	down property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent beneath tree=Destination
4	fall	past	Hansel not said here			asleep 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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