--- title: As this also did no good, he thought to himself: ‘When two people li… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: As this also did no good, he thought to himself: ‘When two people lie in bed together, they warm each other,’ and carried him to the bed, covered him over and lay down by him. Who acts: this, man, two people, people. 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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 people, people), 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:pg2591:57:169 # text = As this also did no good, he thought to himself: ‘When two people lie in bed together, they warm each other,’ and carried him to the bed, covered him over and lay down by him. 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 nsubj _ _ 3 also also ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 5 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 6 det _ _ 6 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 13 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 17 advmod _ _ 15 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 lie lie VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 20 together together ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 warm warm VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 24 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 23 obj _ _ 25 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 30 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 covered cover VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 36 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 over over ADP RP _ 35 compound:prt _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 lay lay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 conj _ _ 40 down down ADP RP _ 39 compound:prt _ _ 41 by by ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | this | no good | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | man | | man | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **lie** | present | two people | | | bed | | together *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location | | 4 | **warm** | present | people | each | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent each=Patient | | 5 | **carry** | past | man *not said here* | man | | the bed | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to bed=Destination | | 6 | **cover over** | past | | | man | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Destination | | 7 | **lay down** | infinitive | | | | | | by man | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by he=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 168](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/57/168/) - next →: [sentence 170](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/57/170/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/57/)