Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Elves and the Shoemaker, sentence 17

‘These little wights have made us rich, and we ought to be thankful to them, and do them a good turn if we can.

What happens: make, be, do · To what, where: little wights, wights

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: 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct
2	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 wights	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wights	amod
4	wights	wight	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 made	nsubj:pass
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 made	aux
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 made	obj
8	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 made	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 thankful	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ought	cc
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 ought	nsubj
12	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 thankful	aux
13	to	to	PART	_	15 thankful	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 thankful	cop
15	thankful	thankful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 made	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 thankful	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 do	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 do	cc
20	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 made	conj
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 do	obj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 turn	det
23	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 turn	amod
24	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 do	obj
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 can	mark
26	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 can	nsubj
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 do	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	make	present · perfect · passive	this little wights		rich property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary we=Product
2	is	ought		wights = wight	thankful property	tree rules
3	do	infinitive	wights = wight			tree rules

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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