Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Salad, sentence 43
Then he laid himself down and slept off a little of his weariness; and when he awoke the next morning he broke off a head both of the good and the bad salad, and thought to himself, ‘This will help me to my fortune again, and enable me to pay off some folks for their treachery.’
Who acts: cloud, This, me · What happens: lay down, sleep off, awake, break off, think, help · To what, where: cloud, little, head, me, folks
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 (cloud, This, me), 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 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 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 slept | cc |
| 7 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 laid | conj |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 slept | compound:prt |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 little | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 slept | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 weariness | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 weariness | nmod:poss |
| 13 | weariness | weariness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 little | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 broke | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 broke | cc |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 awoke | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 awoke | nsubj |
| 18 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 broke | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 morning | det |
| 20 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 morning | amod |
| 21 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 awoke | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 broke | nsubj |
| 23 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 laid | conj |
| 24 | off | off | ADP | _ | 23 broke | compound:prt |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 head | det |
| 26 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 broke | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 good | nsubj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 good | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 good | det |
| 30 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 broke | parataxis |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 salad | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 salad | det |
| 33 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 salad | amod |
| 34 | salad | salad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 good | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 thought | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 thought | cc |
| 37 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 laid | conj |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 himself | case |
| 39 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 37 thought | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 help | punct |
| 41 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 44 help | punct |
| 42 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 44 help | nsubj |
| 43 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 help | aux |
| 44 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 thought | parataxis |
| 45 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 help | obj |
| 46 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 fortune | case |
| 47 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 48 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 help | obl |
| 49 | again | again | ADV | _ | 44 help | advmod |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 enable | punct |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 enable | cc |
| 52 | enable | enable | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 help | conj |
| 53 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 52 enable | obj |
| 54 | to | to | PART | _ | 55 pay | mark |
| 55 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 52 enable | xcomp |
| 56 | off | off | ADP | _ | 55 pay | compound:prt |
| 57 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 58 folks | det |
| 58 | folks | folk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 55 pay | obj |
| 59 | for | for | ADP | _ | 61 treachery | case |
| 60 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 61 treachery | nmod:poss |
| 61 | treachery | treachery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 pay | obl |
| 62 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 laid | punct |
| 63 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay down | past | cloud | cloud | then | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Result | |||
| 2 | sleep off | past | cloud not said here | a little | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | awake | past | cloud | morning | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | break off | past | cloud | a head | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other | participle | cloud not said here | cloud | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | help | future | This | me | again | to my fortune | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | ||
| 7 | enable | infinitive | This not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | pay off | to-infinitive | me not said here | some folks | for folks's treachery | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent folk=Asset for treachery=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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