Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Elves and the Shoemaker, sentence 21
About midnight in they came, dancing and skipping, hopped round the room, and then went to sit down to their work as usual; but when they saw the clothes lying for them, they laughed and chuckled, and seemed mightily delighted.
Who acts: wights, clothes · What happens: come, dance, skip, hop, go, sit down · To what, where: room, clothes
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 (wights, clothes), 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 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 midnight | advmod |
| 2 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 3 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 5 came | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dancing | punct |
| 7 | dancing | dance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 came | advcl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 skipping | cc |
| 9 | skipping | skip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 dancing | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hopped | punct |
| 11 | hopped | hop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 skipping | parataxis |
| 12 | round | round | ADP | _ | 14 room | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 room | det |
| 14 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hopped | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 went | advmod |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 sit | mark |
| 20 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 went | xcomp |
| 21 | down | down | ADP | _ | 20 sit | compound:prt |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 work | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 work | nmod:poss |
| 24 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sit | obl |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 usual | case |
| 26 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 sit | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 laughed | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 39 laughed | cc |
| 29 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 saw | advmod |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 saw | nsubj |
| 31 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 laughed | advcl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 clothes | det |
| 33 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 31 saw | obj |
| 34 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 clothes | acl |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 them | case |
| 36 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 lying | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 saw | punct |
| 38 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 laughed | nsubj |
| 39 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 chuckled | cc |
| 41 | chuckled | chuckle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 laughed | conj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 seemed | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 seemed | cc |
| 44 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | parataxis |
| 45 | mightily | mightily | ADV | _ | 46 delighted | advmod |
| 46 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 seemed | xcomp |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | wights = wight | midnight | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dance | gerund | wights = wight not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | skip | gerund | wights = wight not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | hop | participle | the room | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round room=Trajectory | |||||
| 5 | go | past | wights = wight not said here | then | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | sit down | to-infinitive | wights = wight not said here | to wights's work; as usual | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | see | past | wights = wight | the clothes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer clothes=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | lie | gerund | the clothes not said here | for wights = wight | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 9 | laugh | past | wights = wight | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 10 | chuckle | past | wights = wight not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 11 | seem | past | delighted property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 12 | work | wights = wight | 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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