Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 1

A poor woodman sat in his cottage one night, smoking his pipe by the fireside, while his wife sat by his side spinning.

Who acts: poor woodman, wife · What happens: sit, smoke, spin · To what, where: cottage, pipe

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor woodman, wife), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 woodman	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woodman	amod
3	woodman	woodman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 cottage	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 cottage	nmod:poss
7	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 night	nummod
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 smoking	punct
11	smoking	smoke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 sat	advcl
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 pipe	nmod:poss
13	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 smoking	obj
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 fireside	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fireside	det
16	fireside	fireside	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 smoking	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sat	punct
18	while	while	SCONJ	_	21 sat	mark
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 wife	nmod:poss
20	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sat	nsubj
21	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
22	by	by	ADP	_	24 side	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 side	nmod:poss
24	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sat	obl
25	spinning	spin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 sat	advcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	a poor woodman		woodman's cottage	night		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cottage=Location
2	smoke	gerund	a poor woodman not said here	woodman's pipe			by the fireside	vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent pipe=Source
3	sit	past	woodman's wife				by woodman's side	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location
4	spin	gerund	woodman's wife not said here					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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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