Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Salad, sentence 30

But the old witch made a deep sleep come upon him, and he said to the young lady, ‘Let us sit down and rest ourselves a little, I am so tired that I cannot stand any longer.’

Who acts: old witch, deep sleep, sleep, us, I · What happens: make, come, say, let, sit down, rest · To what, where: us, ourselves · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Salad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old witch, deep sleep, sleep, us), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 made	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 witch	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 witch	amod
4	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	nsubj
5	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 sleep	det
7	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sleep	amod
8	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 come	nsubj
9	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 made	ccomp
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 come	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 made	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	19 lady	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 lady	det
18	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 lady	amod
19	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Let	punct
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 Let	punct
22	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
23	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 Let	obj
24	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 Let	xcomp
25	down	down	ADP	_	24 sit	compound:prt
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 rest	cc
27	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 sit	conj
28	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 rest	obj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 little	det
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 rest	obl:unmarked
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 tired	punct
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 tired	nsubj
33	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 tired	cop
34	so	so	ADV	_	35 tired	advmod
35	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 made	parataxis
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 stand	mark
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 stand	nsubj
38	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 stand	aux
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 stand	advmod
40	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 tired	advcl
41	any	any	ADV	_	42 longer	advmod
42	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	40 stand	advmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct
44	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	the old witch			tree rules
2	come	present	a deep sleep		upon huntsman	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Location
3	say speech: assert	past	sleep		to the young lady	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to lady=Experiencer clause=Topic
4	let	infinitive		us		tree rules
5	sit down	infinitive	us not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	rest	infinitive	us not said here	ourselves	a little obl:unmarked	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ourselves=Theme
7	is	present	I		tired property	tree rules
8	not stand	can	I		long property	vn assuming_position-50 «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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