--- title: Then he laid himself down and slept off a little of his weariness; a… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: 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, Thi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/56/43/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Grimms' Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/) / [The Salad](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/56/) / 43 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2591:56:43 # text = 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.’ 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 3 obj _ _ 5 down down ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 slept sleep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 off off ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 weariness weariness NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 16 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 awoke awake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl:unmarked _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 24 off off ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl:unmarked _ _ 27 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 30 nsubj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 parataxis _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 salad salad NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 thought think VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 38 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 41 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 This this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 44 nsubj _ _ 43 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 parataxis _ _ 45 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 44 obj _ _ 46 to to ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 nmod:poss _ _ 48 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ _ 49 again again ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 52 enable enable VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 conj _ _ 53 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 52 obj _ _ 54 to to PART TO _ 55 mark _ _ 55 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 52 xcomp _ _ 56 off off ADP RP _ 55 compound:prt _ _ 57 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 58 det _ _ 58 folks folk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 55 obj _ _ 59 for for ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 60 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 61 nmod:poss _ _ 61 treachery treachery NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 62 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 63 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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. - ← previous: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/56/42/) - next →: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/56/44/) - ↑ back to [The Salad](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/56/)