Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 136

The men set down the coffin upon the ground, and he went up and took off the lid, and there lay a dead man within, and as he felt the face it was as cold as ice. "

Who acts: men, man, coffin · What happens: set down, go up, take off, lay, feel, be · To what, where: coffin, ground, lid, dead man, face

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, man, coffin), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 men	det
2	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 set	nsubj
3	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 set	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 coffin	det
6	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 set	obj
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 ground	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ground	det
9	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 set	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 went	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 set	parataxis
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 went	compound:prt
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 took	cc
16	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 went	conj
17	off	off	ADP	_	16 took	compound:prt
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 lid	det
19	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 took	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 lay	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 lay	cc
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 lay	expl
23	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 set	advcl
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 man	det
25	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 man	amod
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lay	obj
27	within	within	ADP	_	23 lay	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 felt	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 felt	cc
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 felt	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 felt	nsubj
32	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 set	parataxis
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 face	det
34	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 felt	obj
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 cold	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 cold	cop
37	as	as	ADV	_	38 cold	advmod
38	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 felt	parataxis
39	as	as	ADP	_	40 ice	case
40	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 cold	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 set	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	set down	past	the men	the coffin	the ground		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent coffin=Theme upon ground=Destination
2	go up	past	man				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	take off	past	man not said here	the lid			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Theme
4	lay	present	the men not said here	a dead man	there		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Result
5	feel	past	man	the face			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Theme
6	is	past	coffin			as ice; cold property	tree rules

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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