Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 64

The little man crawled about in the hay-loft, and at last found a snug place to finish his night’s rest in; so he laid himself down, meaning to sleep till daylight, and then find his way home to his father and mother.

Who acts: little man, man · What happens: crawl, find, finish, lay down, mean, sleep · To what, where: hay loft, snug place, last, rest, man, way

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little man, man), 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 man	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crawled	nsubj
4	crawled	crawl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADV	_	4 crawled	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	10 loft	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 loft	det
8	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 loft	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 hay	punct
10	loft	loft	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crawled	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 found	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 found	cc
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 last	case
14	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 found	obl
15	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 crawled	parataxis
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 place	det
17	snug	snug	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 place	amod
18	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 found	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 finish	mark
20	finish	finish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 place	acl
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 night	nmod:poss
22	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rest	nmod:poss
23	’s	's	PART	_	22 night	case
24	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 finish	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	24 rest	nmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 laid	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	29 laid	advmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 laid	nsubj
29	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 crawled	parataxis
30	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 laid	obj
31	down	down	ADP	_	29 laid	compound:prt
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 meaning	punct
33	meaning	mean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 laid	advcl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 sleep	mark
35	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 meaning	xcomp
36	till	till	ADP	_	37 daylight	case
37	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 sleep	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 find	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 find	cc
40	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	41 find	advmod
41	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 crawled	conj
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 way	nmod:poss
43	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 find	obj
44	home	home	ADV	_	41 find	advmod
45	to	to	ADP	_	47 father	case
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 father	nmod:poss
47	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 find	obl
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 mother	cc
49	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 father	conj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 crawled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crawl	past	the little man		the hay loft		about property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in loft=Trajectory
2	find	past		a snug place	last			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent place=Theme at last=Asset
3	finish	to-infinitive		man's night's rest				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality rest=Eventuality
4	lay down	past	man	man				vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Result
5	mean	gerund	man not said here					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	sleep not said to happen	to-infinitive	man not said here			till daylight		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	find	infinitive	the little man not said here	man's way		then	to man's father and mother; home property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic

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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