Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 38

So he laid himself down, and sleep fell upon him unawares, so that he did not wake up till the clock was striking a quarter to twelve.

Who acts: door, clock · What happens: lay down, sleep, fall, not wake up, strike · To what, where: door, unawares, quarter

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, clock), 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 laid	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 laid	nsubj
3	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 laid	obj
5	down	down	ADP	_	3 laid	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sleep	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sleep	cc
8	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	3 laid	conj
9	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laid	conj
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fell	obl
12	unawares	unaware	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fell	obl:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wake	punct
14	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	19 wake	mark
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 so	fixed
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 wake	nsubj
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 wake	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 wake	advmod
19	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 fell	conj
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 wake	compound:prt
21	till	till	SCONJ	_	25 striking	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 clock	det
23	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 striking	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 striking	aux
25	striking	strike	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 wake	advcl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 quarter	det
27	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 striking	obj
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 twelve	case
29	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 striking	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lay down	past	door	door		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Result
2	sleep	present	door not said here			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fall	past	door not said here	unawares	upon door	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon he=Location
4	not wake up	past · do-support	door			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	strike	past · progressive	the clock	a quarter	to twelve result	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent quarter=Patient to twelve=Result

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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