Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 1

One summer’s morning a little tailor was sitting on his table by the window; he was in good spirits, and sewed with all his might.

Who acts: morning, tailor · What happens: sit, be, sew · To what, where: table, good spirits

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» 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 (morning, tailor), 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	2 summer	nummod
2	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 morning	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 summer	case
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sitting	nsubj:outer
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tailor	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tailor	amod
7	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sitting	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sitting	aux
9	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 table	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 table	nmod:poss
12	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sitting	obl
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 window	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 window	det
15	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sitting	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 spirits	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 spirits	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 spirits	cop
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 spirits	case
20	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 spirits	amod
21	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sitting	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sewed	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sewed	cc
24	sewed	sew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sitting	parataxis
25	with	with	SCONJ	_	28 might	mark
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 might	det:predet
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 might	nmod:poss
28	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 sewed	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	One summer's morning	tailor's table	by the window	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on table=Location
2	is	past	tailor	good spirits		tree rules
3	sew	past				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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.

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