Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 20

The peasant ate it, and lay down with his skin beside him, and the woman thought: ‘He is tired and has gone to sleep.’

Who acts: peasant, woman, storm · What happens: eat, lay down, think, be, go, sleep · To what, where: cheese · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Peasant. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasant, woman, storm), 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	2 peasant	det
2	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ate	nsubj
3	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ate	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lay	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 lay	cc
7	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ate	conj
8	down	down	ADV	_	7 lay	advmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 skin	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 skin	nmod:poss
11	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lay	obl
12	beside	beside	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 lay	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 thought	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 thought	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 woman	det
17	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 thought	nsubj
18	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ate	conj
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 tired	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 tired	punct
21	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 tired	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 tired	cop
23	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 thought	ccomp
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 gone	cc
25	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 gone	aux
26	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 tired	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 sleep	mark
28	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 gone	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ate	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat	past	the peasant	cheese		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	lay down	infinitive	the peasant not said here		with storm's skin; beside storm; down property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent beside he=Destination
3	think speech: other	past	the woman			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	storm		tired property	tree rules
5	go	present · perfect	storm not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	sleep	to-infinitive	storm not said here			vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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