Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 9

No mishap overtook them; if they had stayed too late in the forest, and night came on, they laid themselves down near one another upon the moss, and slept until morning came, and their mother knew this and did not worry on their account.

Who acts: mishap, children, night, morning, mother · What happens: overtake, stay, come on, lay down, sleep, come · To what, where: children, this, account

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mishap, children, night, morning), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 mishap	det
2	mishap	mishap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 overtook	nsubj
3	overtook	overtake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 overtook	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 stayed	punct
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 stayed	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stayed	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stayed	aux
9	stayed	stay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 overtook	conj
10	too	too	ADV	_	11 late	advmod
11	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stayed	xcomp
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 forest	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 forest	det
14	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 late	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 came	cc
17	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stayed	parataxis
19	on	on	ADV	_	18 came	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 laid	punct
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 laid	nsubj
22	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 overtook	conj
23	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 laid	obj
24	down	down	ADP	_	22 laid	compound:prt
25	near	near	ADP	_	26 one	case
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 laid	obl
27	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	26 one	fixed
28	upon	upon	ADP	_	30 moss	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 moss	det
30	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 one	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 slept	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 slept	cc
33	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 overtook	conj
34	until	until	SCONJ	_	36 came	mark
35	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 came	nsubj
36	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 slept	advcl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 knew	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 knew	cc
39	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 mother	nmod:poss
40	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 knew	nsubj
41	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 overtook	parataxis
42	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	41 knew	obj
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 worry	cc
44	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 worry	aux
45	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	46 worry	advmod
46	worry	worry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 knew	conj
47	on	on	ADP	_	49 account	case
48	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 account	nmod:poss
49	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 worry	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 overtook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	overtake	past	no mishap	children = child			tree rules
2	stay a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	children = child			late property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come on	past	night				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	lay down	past	children = child	children = child		near one upon the moss	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme near one=Destination
5	sleep	past	no mishap not said here				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	come	past	morning				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	know	past	children's mother	this			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
8	not worry	past · do-support	children's mother not said here		children's account		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
9	account		children = child				nom account «communication transitive»: poss=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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