Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 139

But all this was of no avail, and he thought to himself if two lie in a bed together they warm each other; so he put the body in the bed, and covering it up laid himself down by its side.

Who acts: this, man, two, arms, covering · What happens: be, think, lie, warm, put, cover up · To what, where: man, bed, each, body

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 (this, man, two, arms), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 avail	cc
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 avail	det:predet
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 avail	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 avail	cop
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 avail	case
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 avail	det
7	avail	avail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 thought	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 thought	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 thought	nsubj
11	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 avail	parataxis
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 himself	case
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 thought	obl
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 lie	mark
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 lie	nsubj
16	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 thought	advcl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 bed	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 bed	det
19	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lie	obl
20	together	together	ADV	_	16 lie	advmod
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 warm	nsubj
22	warm	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 lie	parataxis
23	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	22 warm	obj
24	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 each	fixed
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 put	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	28 put	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 put	nsubj
28	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 thought	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 body	det
30	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 put	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 bed	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 bed	det
33	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 put	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 laid	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 laid	cc
36	covering	cover	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 laid	csubj
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 covering	obj
38	up	up	ADP	_	36 covering	compound:prt
39	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 thought	conj
40	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	39 laid	obj
41	down	down	ADP	_	39 laid	compound:prt
42	by	by	ADP	_	44 side	case
43	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 side	nmod:poss
44	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 laid	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 avail	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	this				of all avail	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	man		man			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	lie a condition, not said to happen	present	two			a bed	together property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location
4	warm	present	arms = arm	each				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent each=Patient
5	put	past	man	the body		the bed		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent body=Theme in bed=Destination
6	cover up	gerund		bed				vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination
7	lay down	past	covering	man			by bed's side	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme by side=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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