Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 44

The old woman then mixed a sleeping draught with their wine, and before long they were all lying on the floor of the cellar, fast asleep and snoring.

Who acts: old woman, robbers · What happens: mix, sleep, lie, snore · To what, where: sleeping draught, floor

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Robber Bridegroom. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, robbers), 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 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mixed	nsubj
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 mixed	advmod
5	mixed	mix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 draught	det
7	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 draught	amod
8	draught	draught	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mixed	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 wine	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 wine	nmod:poss
11	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mixed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lying	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 lying	cc
14	before	before	ADP	_	15 long	case
15	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 lying	obl
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 lying	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 lying	aux
18	all	all	ADV	_	19 lying	advmod
19	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 mixed	conj
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 floor	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 floor	det
22	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lying	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 cellar	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 cellar	det
25	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 floor	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 asleep	punct
27	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 asleep	advmod
28	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 lying	parataxis
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 snoring	cc
30	snoring	snore	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 asleep	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 mixed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mix	past	the old woman	a sleeping draught		then	with robbers's wine	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent draught=Patient with wine=Co-Patient
2	sleep	gerund						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	lie	past · progressive	robbers = robber		the floor of the cellar	before long	all property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before long=Location
4	snore	gerund	robbers = robber not said here					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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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