Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 1

One fine day a Tailor was sitting on his bench by the window in very high spirits, sewing away most diligently, and presently up the street came a country woman, crying, "Good jams for sale!

Who acts: Tailor, country woman · What happens: sit, sew away, come, cry · To what, where: Good jams, bench, street

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tailor, country woman), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	nummod
2	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sitting	obl:unmarked
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 Tailor	det
5	Tailor	Tailor	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 sitting	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sitting	aux
7	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 bench	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 bench	nmod:poss
10	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sitting	obl
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 window	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 window	det
13	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sitting	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 spirits	case
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 high	advmod
16	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 spirits	amod
17	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 window	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sewing	punct
19	sewing	sew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 sitting	conj
20	away	away	ADV	_	19 sewing	advmod
21	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 diligently	nsubj
22	diligently	diligently	ADV	_	19 sewing	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 came	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 came	cc
25	presently	presently	ADV	_	29 came	advmod
26	up	up	ADP	_	28 street	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 street	det
28	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 came	obl
29	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sitting	parataxis
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 woman	det
31	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 woman	compound
32	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 came	nsubj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 crying	punct
34	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 sitting	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 jams	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 jams	punct
37	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 jams	amod
38	jams	jam	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sitting	obl
39	for	for	ADP	_	40 sale	case
40	sale	sale	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 jams	nmod
41	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	a Tailor	Good jams for sale	Tailor's bench	day	by the window in high spirits	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bench=Location
2	sew away	gerund	a Tailor not said here				away, diligently property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	come	past	a country woman		the street		presently property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme up street=Initial_Location
4	cry speech: express	gerund	a Tailor not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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: «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.

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