Grimms' Fairy Tales, Mother Holle, sentence 43

The next day, however, she began to dawdle over her work, and the third day she was more idle still; then she began to lie in bed in the mornings and refused to get up.

Who acts: girl, third day · What happens: begin, dawdle, be, lie, refuse, not get up · To what, where: work, bed

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Mother Holle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, third day), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 day	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 began	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 day	punct
5	however	however	ADV	_	8 began	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 however	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 began	nsubj
8	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 dawdle	mark
10	dawdle	dawdle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 began	xcomp
11	over	over	ADP	_	13 work	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 work	nmod:poss
13	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dawdle	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 idle	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 idle	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 day	det
17	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 day	amod
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 idle	nsubj
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 idle	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 idle	cop
21	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 idle	advmod
22	idle	idle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 began	obl
23	still	still	ADV	_	22 idle	advmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 began	punct
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 began	advmod
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 began	nsubj
27	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 began	parataxis
28	to	to	PART	_	29 lie	mark
29	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 began	xcomp
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 bed	case
31	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lie	obl
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 mornings	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 mornings	det
34	mornings	morning	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 lie	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 refused	cc
36	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 began	conj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 get	mark
38	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 refused	xcomp
39	up	up	ADP	_	38 get	compound:prt
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	girl		day	however property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	dawdle	to-infinitive	girl not said here	girl's work			vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over work=Location
3	is	past	the third day		still	idle property	tree rules
4	begin	past	girl		then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	lie	to-infinitive	girl not said here	bed	morning		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location
6	refuse	past	girl not said here				vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	not get up	to-infinitive	girl not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
8	work		girl				nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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