--- title: So they laid her down upon a bier, and all seven watched and bewaile… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · 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 thought they would 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, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/30/141/) [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/) / [Grimms' Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/) / [Sweetheart Roland](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/30/) / 141 # Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 141 So they laid her down upon a bier, and all seven watched and bewailed her three whole days; and then they thought they would 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, SNOWDROP, We · **What happens:** lay down, watch, bewail, think, bury, be · **To what, where:** SNOWDROP, bier, cold ground · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Sweetheart Roland. 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:pg2591:30:141 # text = So they laid her down upon a bier, and all seven watched and bewailed her three whole days; and then they thought they would 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 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 bury bury VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 ccomp _ _ 28 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 : : PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 30 but but CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 31 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 cheeks cheek NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 33 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 34 still still ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 rosy rosy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ; ; PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 38 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 40 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 41 just just ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 42 as as SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 43 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 44 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 advcl _ _ 45 while while SCONJ IN _ 48 mark _ _ 46 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 47 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 48 cop _ _ 48 alive alive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ; ; PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 50 so so ADV RB _ 52 advmod _ _ 51 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 52 nsubj _ _ 52 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 54 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 58 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 55 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 58 nsubj _ _ 56 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 58 aux _ _ 57 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 58 advmod _ _ 58 bury bury VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 52 ccomp _ _ 59 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 58 obj _ _ 60 in in ADP IN _ 63 case _ _ 61 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 63 det _ _ 62 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 63 amod _ _ 63 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 64 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 65 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lay down** | past | dwarfs *= dwarf* | SNOWDROP | | 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* | SNOWDROP | | | day | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | dwarfs *= dwarf* | | | | then | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **bury** | would | dwarfs *= dwarf* | SNOWDROP | | | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 6 | **is** | past | SNOWDROP's cheeks | | | | still | rosy *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **look** | past | SNOWDROP'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 | SNOWDROP | | | | | 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** | future | We | SNOWDROP | | 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 140](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/30/140/) - next →: [sentence 142](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/30/142/) - ↑ back to [Sweetheart Roland](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/30/)