Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Elves and the Shoemaker, sentence 13

As soon as it was midnight, there came in two little naked dwarfs; and they sat themselves upon the shoemaker’s bench, took up all the work that was cut out, and began to ply with their little fingers, stitching and rapping and tapping away at such a rate, that the shoemaker was all wonder, and could not take his eyes off them.

Who acts: light, dwarfs, shoemaker · What happens: be, come in, sit, take up, cut out, begin · To what, where: two little naked dwarfs, dwarfs, bench, work, wonder, eyes

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 (light, dwarfs, shoemaker), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 came	advmod
3	as	as	ADP	_	6 midnight	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 midnight	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 midnight	cop
6	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 soon	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 came	expl
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	in	in	ADV	_	14 dwarfs	advmod
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 dwarfs	nummod
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 dwarfs	amod
13	naked	naked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 dwarfs	amod
14	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 came	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 sat	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sat	cc
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sat	nsubj
18	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	conj
19	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 sat	obj
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	24 bench	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 shoemaker	det
22	shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bench	nmod:poss
23	’s	's	PART	_	22 shoemaker	case
24	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sat	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 took	punct
26	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sat	conj
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 took	compound:prt
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 work	det:predet
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 work	det
30	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 took	obj
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 cut	nsubj:pass
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 cut	aux:pass
33	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 work	acl:relcl
34	out	out	ADP	_	33 cut	compound:prt
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 began	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 began	cc
37	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sat	conj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 ply	mark
39	ply	ply	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 began	xcomp
40	with	with	ADP	_	43 fingers	case
41	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 fingers	nmod:poss
42	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 fingers	amod
43	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 ply	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 stitching	punct
45	stitching	stitch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 ply	advcl
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 rapping	cc
47	rapping	rap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	45 stitching	conj
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 tapping	cc
49	tapping	tap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	45 stitching	conj
50	away	away	ADV	_	49 tapping	advmod
51	at	at	ADP	_	54 rate	case
52	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	54 rate	det:predet
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 rate	det
54	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 tapping	obl
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 wonder	punct
56	that	that	SCONJ	_	61 wonder	mark
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 shoemaker	det
58	shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 wonder	nsubj
59	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	61 wonder	cop
60	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	61 wonder	det
61	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 began	obl
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 take	punct
63	and	and	CCONJ	_	66 take	cc
64	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	66 take	aux
65	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	66 take	advmod
66	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 sat	advcl
67	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	68 eyes	nmod:poss
68	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	66 take	obj
69	off	off	ADP	_	70 them	case
70	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	66 take	obl
71	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	light			as midnight	tree rules
2	come in	past		two little naked dwarfs	there	soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sit	past	dwarfs = dwarf	dwarfs = dwarf	the shoemaker's bench		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme upon bench=Location
4	take up	past	dwarfs = dwarf not said here	all work			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme
5	cut out	past · passive		all work			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality
6	begin	past	dwarfs = dwarf not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	ply	to-infinitive	dwarfs = dwarf not said here			with dwarfs's little fingers	vn equip-13.4.2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent with finger=Theme
8	stitch	gerund	dwarfs = dwarf not said here				vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
9	rap	gerund	dwarfs = dwarf not said here				vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme
10	tap away	gerund	dwarfs = dwarf not said here			at such rate; away property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at rate=Patient
11	is a	past	the shoemaker	all wonder			tree rules
12	not take	could	dwarfs = dwarf not said here	shoemaker's eyes		off dwarfs = dwarf	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent eye=Theme off they=Initial_Location

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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