Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Elves and the Shoemaker, sentence 14
And on they went, till the job was quite done, and the shoes stood ready for use upon the table.
Who acts: dwarfs, shoes · What happens: go, do, stand · To what, where: job, table
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 (dwarfs, shoes), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 went | cc |
| 2 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 4 went | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 done | punct |
| 6 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 11 done | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 job | det |
| 8 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 done | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 done | aux:pass |
| 10 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 11 done | advmod |
| 11 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 went | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stood | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 stood | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 shoes | det |
| 15 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 stood | nsubj |
| 16 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 17 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 stood | xcomp |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 use | case |
| 19 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stood | obl |
| 20 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 table | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 table | det |
| 22 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stood | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | dwarfs = dwarf | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do | past · passive | the job | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | stand | past | the shoes | the table | for use; ready property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon table=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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