Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 64

Then he sat himself down, and said, ‘I am very much tired; sit by me, I will rest my head in your lap, and sleep a while.’

Who acts: luck, I · What happens: sit down, say, be, sit, rest, sleep · To what, where: luck, head, lap · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The King of the Golden Mountain. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (luck, I), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 sat	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	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 sat	obj
5	down	down	ADP	_	3 sat	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 tired	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 tired	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 tired	nsubj
12	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 tired	cop
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 much	advmod
14	much	much	ADV	_	15 tired	advmod
15	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	ccomp
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 sit	punct
17	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sat	conj
18	by	by	ADP	_	19 me	case
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 sit	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 rest	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 rest	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 rest	aux
23	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 sit	conj
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 head	nmod:poss
25	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 rest	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 lap	case
27	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 lap	nmod:poss
28	lap	lap	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 rest	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sleep	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 sleep	cc
31	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 sit	conj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 while	det
33	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sleep	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	luck	luck		then		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	luck not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	I				tired property	tree rules
4	sit	infinitive	luck not said here				by me	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by i=Location
5	rest	future	I	my head	your lap			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent head=Theme in lap=Location
6	sleep	infinitive	luck not said here			while		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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