--- title: So looking around he saw a great bed in one corner, in which he lay… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: So looking around he saw a great bed in one corner, in which he lay down; but no sooner had he closed his eyes, than the bed began to move of itself and travelled all round the castle. " Who acts: cold, bed. 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" **Who acts:** cold, bed · **What happens:** look around, see, lie down, close, begin, move · **To what, where:** great bed, one corner, eyes, castle 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 (cold, bed), 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:pg11027:9:103 # text = So looking around he saw a great bed in one corner, in which he lay down; but no sooner had he closed his eyes, than the bed began to move of itself and travelled all round the castle. " 1 So so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 3 around around ADP IN _ 2 obl _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 corner corner NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 obl _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 lay lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 17 down down ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 20 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 21 det _ _ 21 sooner soon ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 24 advmod _ _ 22 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 closed close VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 than than SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 parataxis _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 move move VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 33 obl _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 travelled travel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 38 all all ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 39 round round ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look around** | gerund | cold *not said here* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **see** | past | cold | a great bed | | one corner | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bed=Stimulus | | 3 | **lie down** | past | cold | | | | | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in which=Location | | 4 | **close** | past | cold | cold's eyes | | | | soon *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | | 5 | **begin** | past | the bed | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **move** | to-infinitive | the bed *not said here* | | | | | of bed | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme of itself=Trajectory | | 7 | **travel** | past | the bed *not said here* | | | the castle | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round castle=Trajectory | 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 102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/9/102/) - next →: [sentence 104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/9/104/) - ↑ back to [Oh, If I Could But Shiver!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/9/)