Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Salad, sentence 31
So they sat down, and he laid his head in her lap and fell asleep; and whilst he was sleeping on she took the cloak from his shoulders, hung it on her own, picked up the diamonds, and wished herself home again.
Who acts: diamonds, sleep, lady · What happens: sit down, lay, fall, sleep, take, hang · To what, where: head, lap, cloak, shoulders, own, diamonds
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 (diamonds, sleep, lady), 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 sat | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 sat | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 laid | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 laid | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 laid | nsubj |
| 8 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 head | nmod:poss |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 laid | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 lap | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 lap | nmod:poss |
| 13 | lap | lap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 laid | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fell | cc |
| 15 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 laid | conj |
| 16 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fell | xcomp |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 took | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 took | cc |
| 19 | whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 22 sleeping | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 sleeping | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 sleeping | aux |
| 22 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 took | advcl |
| 23 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 25 took | mark |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 took | nsubj |
| 25 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 cloak | det |
| 27 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 took | obj |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 shoulders | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 30 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 took | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 hung | punct |
| 32 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 hung | obj |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 own | case |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 own | nmod:poss |
| 36 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 hung | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 picked | punct |
| 38 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 hung | conj |
| 39 | up | up | ADP | _ | 38 picked | compound:prt |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 diamonds | det |
| 41 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 picked | obj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 wished | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 wished | cc |
| 44 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 45 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 44 wished | obj |
| 46 | home | home | ADV | _ | 44 wished | advmod |
| 47 | again | again | ADV | _ | 44 wished | advmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | diamonds = diamond | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | lay | past | sleep | sleep's head | lady's lap | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme in lap=Destination | |||
| 3 | fall | past | sleep not said here | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sleep | past · progressive | sleep | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | take | past | lady | the cloak | sleep's shoulders | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent cloak=Theme from shoulder=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | hang | past | diamonds = diamond not said here | cloak | lady's own | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on own=Destination | |||
| 7 | pick up | participle | diamonds = diamond not said here | the diamonds | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent diamond=Topic | ||||
| 8 | wish | past | diamonds = diamond not said here | lady | again | home property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot herself=Theme |
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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