Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 10

He laid the bread near him, sewed on, and in his joy, made bigger and bigger stitches.

Who acts: tailor · What happens: lay, sew, make, joy · To what, where: bread, bigger stitches, joy

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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laid	nsubj
2	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bread	det
4	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 laid	obj
5	near	near	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laid	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sewed	punct
8	sewed	sew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laid	conj
9	on	on	ADV	_	8 sewed	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 made	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 made	cc
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 joy	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 joy	nmod:poss
14	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 made	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 joy	punct
16	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laid	conj
17	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 stitches	amod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 bigger	cc
19	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 bigger	conj
20	stitches	stitch	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 made	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay	past	tailor	the bread		near God	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bread=Theme near he=Destination
2	sew	past	tailor not said here				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	make	past	tailor not said here	bigger stitches	tailor's joy		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stitch=Product
4	joy		tailor				nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=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: «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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