Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 165

They placed the coffin on the ground, but he went to it and took the lid off, and a dead man lay therein.

Who acts: fingers, man, dead man · What happens: place, go, take off, lie · To what, where: coffin, ground, lid

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fingers, man, dead man), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 placed	nsubj
2	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 coffin	det
4	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 placed	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 ground	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ground	det
7	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 placed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 went	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 went	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 went	nsubj
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 placed	parataxis
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 went	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 took	cc
15	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 went	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 lid	det
17	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 took	obj
18	off	off	ADP	_	15 took	compound:prt
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 lay	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 lay	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 man	det
22	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 man	amod
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lay	nsubj
24	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 placed	parataxis
25	therein	therein	ADV	_	24 lay	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	place	past	fingers = finger	the coffin	the ground		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent coffin=Theme on ground=Destination
2	go	past	man		coffin		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to it=Initial_Location
3	take off	past	man not said here	the lid			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Theme
4	lie	past	a dead man			therein property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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