Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 166
As she was very tired, she sat herself down in the hollow of a tree and soon fell asleep: and there she slept on till it was midday.
Who acts: beast, hollow · What happens: be, sit down, fall, sleep · To what, where: beast, hollow, midday
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Iron Hans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beast, hollow), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 tired | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tired | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tired | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 tired | advmod |
| 5 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sat | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sat | nsubj |
| 8 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tired | parataxis |
| 9 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 sat | obj |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 sat | compound:prt |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 hollow | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hollow | det |
| 13 | hollow | hollow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sat | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 tree | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 tree | det |
| 16 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hollow | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 fell | cc |
| 18 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 fell | advmod |
| 19 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sat | conj |
| 20 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 fell | xcomp |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 slept | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 there | cc |
| 23 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 slept | advmod |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 slept | nsubj |
| 25 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tired | conj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 midday | case |
| 27 | till | till | ADP | _ | 30 midday | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 midday | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 midday | cop |
| 30 | midday | midday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 slept | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | beast | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sit down | past | beast | beast | the hollow of a tree | tree rules | |||
| 3 | fall | past | beast not said here | asleep, soon property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sleep | past | beast | there | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is | past | hollow | midday | tree rules |
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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