Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 75

So they laid her down upon a bier, and all seven watched and bewailed her three whole days; and then they proposed to bury her; but her cheeks were still rosy, and her face looked just as it did while she was alive; so they said, "We will never bury her in the cold ground."

Who acts: dwarfs, seven, cheeks, face, breath, We · What happens: lay down, watch, bewail, propose, bury, be · To what, where: breath, bier, cold ground · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little Snow White. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dwarfs, seven, cheeks, face), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 laid	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 laid	nsubj
3	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 laid	obj
5	down	down	ADP	_	3 laid	compound:prt
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 bier	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bier	det
8	bier	bier	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laid	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 watched	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 watched	cc
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 seven	det
12	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 watched	nsubj
13	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laid	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 bewailed	cc
15	bewailed	bewail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 watched	conj
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 bewailed	obj
17	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 days	nummod
18	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 days	amod
19	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 bewailed	obl:unmarked
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 proposed	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 proposed	cc
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 proposed	advmod
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 proposed	nsubj
24	proposed	propose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laid	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 bury	mark
26	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 proposed	xcomp
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 bury	obj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 rosy	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 rosy	cc
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 cheeks	nmod:poss
31	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 rosy	nsubj
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 rosy	cop
33	still	still	ADV	_	34 rosy	advmod
34	rosy	rosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 laid	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 looked	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 looked	cc
37	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 face	nmod:poss
38	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 looked	nsubj
39	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laid	conj
40	just	just	ADV	_	43 did	advmod
41	as	as	SCONJ	_	43 did	mark
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 did	nsubj
43	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 looked	advcl
44	while	while	SCONJ	_	47 alive	mark
45	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 alive	nsubj
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 alive	cop
47	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 did	advcl
48	;	;	PUNCT	_	51 said	punct
49	so	so	ADV	_	51 said	advmod
50	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 said	nsubj
51	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laid	conj
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 bury	punct
53	"	"	PUNCT	_	57 bury	punct
54	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	57 bury	nsubj
55	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 bury	aux
56	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	57 bury	advmod
57	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 said	ccomp
58	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 bury	obj
59	in	in	ADP	_	62 ground	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 ground	det
61	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 ground	amod
62	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 bury	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laid	punct
64	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay down	past	dwarfs = dwarf	breath	a bier			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme upon bier=Destination
2	watch	past	all seven					vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
3	bewail	past	all seven not said here	breath		day		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
4	propose	past	dwarfs = dwarf			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	bury	to-infinitive	dwarfs = dwarf not said here	breath				vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
6	is	past	breath's cheeks			still	rosy property	tree rules
7	look	past	breath's face					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
8	do	past	face					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	is	past	breath				alive property	tree rules
10	say speech: assert	past	dwarfs = dwarf					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
11	not bury in a quote	future	We	breath	the cold ground			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in ground=Destination

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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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