Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 77

Then the coffin was placed upon the hill, and one of the dwarfs always sat by it and watched.

Who acts: one · What happens: place, sit, watch · To what, where: coffin, hill

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 (one), 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	5 placed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 coffin	det
3	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 placed	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 placed	aux:pass
5	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 hill	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hill	det
8	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 placed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sat	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sat	cc
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 sat	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 dwarfs	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 dwarfs	det
14	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 one	nmod
15	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	16 sat	advmod
16	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 placed	parataxis
17	by	by	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sat	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 watched	cc
20	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sat	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	place	past · passive		the coffin	the hill	then		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme upon hill=Destination
2	sit	past	one of the dwarfs				by coffin; always property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by it=Location
3	watch	past	one of the dwarfs not said here					vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

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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