Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 9
So he put the bread on the table and stitched away, making larger and larger stitches every time for joy.
Who acts: Heaven · What happens: put, stitch away, make · To what, where: bread, table, larger stitches
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 (Heaven), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 put | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bread | det |
| 5 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 table | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 table | det |
| 8 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 stitched | cc |
| 10 | stitched | stitch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 put | conj |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 stitched | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 making | punct |
| 13 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 put | advcl |
| 14 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 stitches | amod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 larger | cc |
| 16 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 larger | conj |
| 17 | stitches | stitch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 making | obj |
| 18 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 time | det |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 making | obj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 joy | case |
| 21 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 time | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | Heaven | the bread | the table | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent bread=Theme on table=Destination | |||
| 2 | stitch away | participle | Heaven not said here | away property | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | make | gerund | Heaven not said here | larger stitches | time | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stitch=Product |
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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