Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 80

So she tried all the little beds; but one was too long, and another was too short, till at last the seventh suited her: and there she laid herself down and went to sleep.

Who acts: SNOWDROP, one, another, seventh · What happens: try, be, suit, lay down, go · To what, where: little beds, SNOWDROP, sleep

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Sweetheart Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (SNOWDROP, one, another, seventh), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 tried	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tried	nsubj
3	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 beds	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 beds	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 beds	amod
7	beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tried	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 long	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 long	cc
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 long	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 long	cop
12	too	too	ADV	_	13 long	advmod
13	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tried	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 short	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 short	cc
16	another	another	PRON	PronType=Ind	19 short	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 short	cop
18	too	too	ADV	_	19 short	advmod
19	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 long	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 last	punct
21	till	till	ADP	_	23 last	case
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 last	case
23	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 short	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 seventh	det
25	seventh	seventh	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 suited	nsubj
26	suited	suit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 last	acl:relcl
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 suited	obj
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	32 laid	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 laid	cc
30	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 laid	advmod
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 laid	nsubj
32	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tried	conj
33	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	32 laid	obj
34	down	down	ADP	_	32 laid	compound:prt
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 went	cc
36	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 laid	conj
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 sleep	case
38	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 went	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	try	past	SNOWDROP	all little beds			vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Eventuality
2	is	past	one			long property	tree rules
3	is	past	another			short property	tree rules
4	be		another not said here				tree rules
5	suit	past	the seventh	SNOWDROP			tree rules
6	lay down	past	SNOWDROP	SNOWDROP	there		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Result
7	go	past	SNOWDROP not said here		sleep		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location

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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