Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Elves and the Shoemaker, sentence 20

The thought pleased the good cobbler very much; and one evening, when all the things were ready, they laid them on the table, instead of the work that they used to cut out, and then went and hid themselves, to watch what the little elves would do.

Who acts: things, wights, little elves · What happens: be, lay, use, cut out, go, hide · To what, where: shoes, table, work, 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: who acts (things, wights, little elves), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 thought	det
2	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	amod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cobbler	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cobbler	amod
6	cobbler	cobbler	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pleased	obl:unmarked
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADV	_	6 cobbler	advmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 ready	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 ready	cc
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 evening	nummod
12	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ready	obl:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ready	punct
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 ready	advmod
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 things	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 things	det
17	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 ready	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 ready	cop
19	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	appos
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 laid	punct
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 laid	nsubj
22	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 ready	conj
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 laid	obj
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 table	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 table	det
26	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 laid	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 work	punct
28	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	31 work	case
29	of	of	ADP	_	28 instead	fixed
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 work	det
31	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 laid	obl
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 used	obj
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 used	nsubj
34	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 work	acl:relcl
35	to	to	PART	_	36 cut	mark
36	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 used	xcomp
37	out	out	ADP	_	36 cut	compound:prt
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 went	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 went	cc
40	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	41 went	advmod
41	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 used	parataxis
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 hid	cc
43	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 went	conj
44	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	43 hid	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 watch	punct
46	to	to	PART	_	47 watch	mark
47	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 used	advcl
48	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	53 do	obj
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 elves	det
50	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 elves	amod
51	elves	elf	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 do	nsubj
52	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 do	aux
53	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 watch	ccomp
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	all things			evening	ready property	tree rules
2	lay	past	wights = wight	shoes = shoe	the table		instead the work	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme on table=Destination
3	use	past	wights = wight	the work				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent that=Theme clause=Eventuality
4	cut out	to-infinitive	wights = wight not said here					vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	go	past				then		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	hide	past		wights = wight				vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient
7	watch	to-infinitive	wights = wight not said here					tree rules
8	do	would	the little elves					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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