Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Elves and the Shoemaker, sentence 2
Then he cut his leather out, all ready to make up the next day, meaning to rise early in the morning to his work.
Who acts: shoemaker · What happens: cut out, make up, mean, rise, work · To what, where: leather, work
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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 cut | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 cut | nsubj |
| 3 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 leather | nmod:poss |
| 5 | leather | leather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cut | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 cut | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ready | punct |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 ready | advmod |
| 9 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cut | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 make | mark |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 ready | xcomp |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 make | compound:prt |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 day | det |
| 14 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 day | amod |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 make | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 meaning | punct |
| 17 | meaning | mean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 cut | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 rise | mark |
| 19 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 meaning | xcomp |
| 20 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 rise | advmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 morning | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 morning | det |
| 23 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rise | obl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 work | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 work | nmod:poss |
| 26 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rise | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut out | past | shoemaker | shoemaker's leather | then | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector leather=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | make up | to-infinitive | shoemaker not said here | day | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | mean | gerund | shoemaker not said here | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | rise not said to happen | to-infinitive | shoemaker not said here | shoemaker's work | morning | early property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to work=Initial_Location | ||
| 5 | work | shoemaker | 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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