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Description: This project contains data and the documentation of the analysis procedures of the study "Planning sentences and sentence intonation in Estonian". Two eye-tracking experiments investigated the real-time planning of sentences and examined whether the prosodic planning depends on the conceptual and/or linguistic representation of incipient utterances. The results show that sentence-initial intonation peaks are highly sensitive to sentences’ duration, and not to the different degrees of conceptual complexity. Furthermore, eye movements indicate for Estonian—a morphological case-marking language—that sentence production is highly likely to start with a comprehensive conceptual plan. In overall, the study supports an idea that advance planning of sentence intonation depends on the linguistic representation that is derived from a detailed relational framework of incipient sentences.