Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 85

Afterwards two pretty little beds were covered with clean white linen, and Hansel and Gretel lay down in them, and thought they were in heaven.

Who acts: Hansel · What happens: cover, lie down, think, be · To what, where: two little beds, heaven · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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	Afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	7 covered	advmod
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 beds	nummod
3	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	4 little	advmod
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 beds	amod
5	beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 covered	nsubj:pass
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 covered	aux:pass
7	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 linen	case
9	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 linen	amod
10	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 linen	amod
11	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 covered	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lay	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 lay	cc
14	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 lay	nsubj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 Gretel	cc
16	Gretel	Gretel	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Hansel	conj
17	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 covered	parataxis
18	down	down	ADV	_	17 lay	advmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 lay	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 thought	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 thought	cc
23	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 lay	conj
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 heaven	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 heaven	cop
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 heaven	case
27	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 thought	ccomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 covered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cover	past · passive		two little beds		with clean white linen; afterwards property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with linen=Theme
2	lie down	past	Hansel and Gretel			in children = child; down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in they=Location
3	think speech: other	past	Hansel and Gretel not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	Hansel		heaven		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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