Grimms' Fairy Tales, Briar Rose, sentence 24

However, she was not dead, but had only fallen into a deep sleep; and the king and the queen, who had just come home, and all their court, fell asleep too; and the horses slept in the stables, and the dogs in the court, the pigeons on the house-top, and the very flies slept upon the walls.

Who acts: princess, queen, court, horses, dogs · What happens: not be, fall, come, sleep · To what, where: deep sleep, stables, king

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Briar Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, queen, court, horses), 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	However	however	ADV	_	6 dead	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dead	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dead	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 dead	advmod
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fallen	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 fallen	cc
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 fallen	aux
10	only	only	ADV	_	11 fallen	advmod
11	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 dead	conj
12	into	into	ADP	_	15 sleep	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 sleep	det
14	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 sleep	amod
15	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fallen	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 king	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 king	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 king	det
19	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dead	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 queen	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 queen	det
22	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 king	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 come	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 come	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 come	aux
26	just	just	ADV	_	27 come	advmod
27	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 queen	acl:relcl
28	home	home	ADV	_	27 come	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 fell	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 fell	cc
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 court	det:predet
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 court	nmod:poss
33	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 fell	nsubj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 court	punct
35	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 come	advcl
36	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 fell	xcomp
37	too	too	ADV	_	35 fell	advmod
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 slept	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 slept	cc
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 horses	det
41	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 slept	nsubj
42	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 come	advcl
43	in	in	ADP	_	45 stables	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 stables	det
45	stables	stable	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 slept	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 slept	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	66 slept	cc
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 dogs	det
49	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	66 slept	nsubj
50	in	in	ADP	_	52 court	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 court	det
52	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 dogs	nmod
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 pigeons	punct
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 pigeons	det
55	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 dogs	conj
56	on	on	ADP	_	60 top	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 top	det
58	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 top	compound
59	-	-	PUNCT	_	58 house	punct
60	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 pigeons	nmod
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 slept	punct
62	and	and	CCONJ	_	66 slept	cc
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 flies	det
64	very	very	ADV	_	65 flies	advmod
65	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	66 slept	nsubj
66	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 king	acl:relcl
67	upon	upon	ADP	_	69 walls	case
68	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	69 walls	det
69	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	66 slept	obl
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 dead	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past	princess			dead, however property	tree rules
2	fall	past · perfect	princess not said here			into a deep sleep result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into sleep=Result
3	come	past	the queen			home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fall	past	king's court			asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	sleep	past	the horses		the stables		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in stable=Location
6	sleep	past	the dogs in the court and the pigeons on the house top	the king and the queen not said here		upon the walls	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=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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