Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Elves and the Shoemaker, sentence 11

One evening, about Christmas-time, as he and his wife were sitting over the fire chatting together, he said to her, ‘I should like to sit up and watch tonight, that we may see who it is that comes and does my work for me.’

Who acts: customer, I, we, fire, my · What happens: sit, chat, say, like, sit up, watch · To what, where: Christmas time, fire, wife, work · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Elves and the Shoemaker. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (customer, I, we, fire), 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 evening	nummod
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 said	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 time	punct
4	about	about	ADP	_	7 time	case
5	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 time	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Christmas	punct
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 evening	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sitting	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 sitting	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 sitting	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wife	cc
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 wife	nmod:poss
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 he	conj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sitting	aux
15	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 time	acl:relcl
16	over	over	ADP	_	18 fire	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 fire	det
18	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sitting	obl
19	chatting	chat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 sitting	advcl
20	together	together	ADV	_	19 chatting	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 evening	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 said	nsubj
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 her	case
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 said	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 like	punct
27	‘	'	PUNCT	_	30 like	punct
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 like	nsubj
29	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 like	aux
30	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 said	ccomp
31	to	to	PART	_	32 sit	mark
32	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 like	xcomp
33	up	up	ADP	_	32 sit	compound:prt
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 watch	cc
35	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 sit	conj
36	tonight	tonight	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 watch	obl:unmarked
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 see	punct
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 see	mark
39	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 see	nsubj
40	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 see	aux
41	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 sit	conj
42	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	41 see	ccomp
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 who	nsubj
44	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 who	cop
45	that	that	SCONJ	_	46 comes	mark
46	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 see	advcl
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 does	cc
48	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 comes	conj
49	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 work	nmod:poss
50	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 does	obj
51	for	for	ADP	_	52 me	case
52	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 does	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 like	punct
54	’	'	PUNCT	_	30 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	customer	Christmas time not said here		the fire			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent time=Theme over fire=Location
2	chat speech: other	gerund	customer not said here					together property	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	customer		wife		evening		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to she=Experiencer clause=Topic
4	like	should	I						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	sit up not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	watch	infinitive	I not said here				tonight		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
7	see	may	we						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	is a	present	fire						tree rules
9	come	present	we not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	do	present	we not said here	my work				for me	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
11	work		my						nom work «act intransitive»: 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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