Grimms' Fairy Tales, Briar Rose, sentence 36

Then he went on still farther, and all was so still that he could hear every breath he drew; till at last he came to the old tower, and opened the door of the little room in which Briar Rose was; and there she lay, fast asleep on a couch by the window.

Who acts: man, all, Briar · What happens: go on, be, draw, come, open, lie · To what, where: breath, old tower, door, Briar, couch

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 (man, all, Briar), 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 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 farther	advmod
6	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 went	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hear	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 hear	cc
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 hear	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 hear	cop
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 still	advmod
12	still	still	ADV	_	16 hear	advmod
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 hear	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 hear	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 hear	aux
16	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 went	conj
17	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	18 breath	det
18	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hear	obj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 drew	nsubj
20	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 breath	acl:relcl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 last	punct
22	till	till	ADP	_	24 last	case
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 last	case
24	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 went	obl
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 came	nsubj
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 last	acl:relcl
27	to	to	ADP	_	30 tower	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 tower	det
29	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 tower	amod
30	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 came	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 opened	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 opened	cc
33	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 door	det
35	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 opened	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	39 room	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 room	det
38	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 room	amod
39	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 door	nmod
40	in	in	ADP	_	41 which	case
41	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 room	nmod
42	Briar	Briar	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 which	nsubj
43	Rose	Rose	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 Briar	flat
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 Briar	cop
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	49 lay	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 lay	cc
47	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	49 lay	advmod
48	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 lay	nsubj
49	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 fast	punct
51	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	49 lay	advmod
52	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 fast	xcomp
53	on	on	ADP	_	55 couch	case
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 couch	det
55	couch	couch	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 lay	obl
56	by	by	ADP	_	58 window	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 window	det
58	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 lay	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	past	man			till last; then	far property	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	could · past	all			still	hear property	tree rules
3	draw	past	man	every breath not said here				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme
4	come	past	man		the old tower			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tower=Initial_Location
5	open	past	man not said here	the door of the little room in the door of the little room in the door				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
6	is a	past		Briar				tree rules
7	lie	past	Briar		a couch; there		by the window; fast property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on couch=Location

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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