--- title: So they laid her down upon a bier, and all seven watched and bewaile… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: So they laid her down upon a bier, and all seven watched and bewailed her three whole days; and then they proposed to bury her; but her cheeks were still rosy, and her face looked just as it did while she was alive; so they said, "We will never bury her in the cold ground." Who acts: dwarfs, seven, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/11/75/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Grimm's Fairy Stories](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/) / [Little Snow White](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/11/) / 75 # Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 75 So they laid her down upon a bier, and all seven watched and bewailed her three whole days; and then they proposed to bury her; but her cheeks were still rosy, and her face looked just as it did while she was alive; so they said, "We will never bury her in the cold ground." **Who acts:** dwarfs, seven, cheeks, face, breath, We · **What happens:** lay down, watch, bewail, propose, bury, be · **To what, where:** breath, bier, cold ground · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (dwarfs, seven, cheeks, face), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg11027:11:75 # text = So they laid her down upon a bier, and all seven watched and bewailed her three whole days; and then they proposed to bury her; but her cheeks were still rosy, and her face looked just as it did while she was alive; so they said, "We will never bury her in the cold ground." 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 down down ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 6 upon upon ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 bier bier NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 12 det _ _ 12 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nsubj _ _ 13 watched watch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 bewailed bewail VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 16 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 18 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 24 advmod _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 proposed propose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 bury bury VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ; ; PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 29 but but CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 30 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 cheeks cheek NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 32 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 33 still still ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 rosy rosy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 37 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 40 just just ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 41 as as SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 42 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 advcl _ _ 44 while while SCONJ IN _ 47 mark _ _ 45 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 46 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 47 cop _ _ 47 alive alive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ; ; PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 49 so so ADV RB _ 51 advmod _ _ 50 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 51 nsubj _ _ 51 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 53 " " PUNCT `` _ 57 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 54 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 57 nsubj _ _ 55 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 57 aux _ _ 56 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 57 advmod _ _ 57 bury bury VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 51 ccomp _ _ 58 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 57 obj _ _ 59 in in ADP IN _ 62 case _ _ 60 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 62 det _ _ 61 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 62 amod _ _ 62 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 63 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 64 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lay down** | past | dwarfs *= dwarf* | breath | | a bier | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme upon bier=Destination | | 2 | **watch** | past | all seven | | | | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **bewail** | past | all seven *not said here* | breath | | | day | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | | 4 | **propose** | past | dwarfs *= dwarf* | | | | then | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **bury** | to-infinitive | dwarfs *= dwarf* *not said here* | breath | | | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 6 | **is** | past | breath's cheeks | | | | still | rosy *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **look** | past | breath's face | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 8 | **do** | past | face | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **is** | past | breath | | | | | alive *property* | tree rules | | 10 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | dwarfs *= dwarf* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 11 | **not** **bury** *in a quote* | future | We | breath | | the cold ground | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in ground=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. - ← previous: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/11/74/) - next →: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/11/76/) - ↑ back to [Little Snow White](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/11/)