Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 138

So he took up the body, and sitting down by the fire, he laid it on his lap and rubbed the arms that the blood might circulate again.

Who acts: man, blood · What happens: take up, sit down, lay, rub, circulate · To what, where: body, fire, lap, arms

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 (man, blood), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg11027:243): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	3 took	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 took	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 body	det
6	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 laid	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 laid	cc
9	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 laid	advcl
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 sitting	compound:prt
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 fire	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fire	det
13	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sitting	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 laid	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 laid	nsubj
16	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 laid	obj
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 lap	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 lap	nmod:poss
20	lap	lap	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 laid	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 rubbed	cc
22	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 laid	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 arms	det
24	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 rubbed	obj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 circulate	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 blood	det
27	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 circulate	nsubj
28	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 circulate	aux
29	circulate	circulate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 rubbed	advcl
30	again	again	ADV	_	29 circulate	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take up	past	man	the body				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme
2	sit down	gerund	man not said here				by the fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location
3	lay	past	man	fire	man's lap			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on lap=Destination
4	rub	past	man not said here	the arms				vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent arm=Theme
5	circulate	might	the blood			again		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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