Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Elves and the Shoemaker, sentence 22

Then they dressed themselves in the twinkling of an eye, and danced and capered and sprang about, as merry as could be; till at last they danced out at the door, and away over the green.

Who acts: wights · What happens: dress, dance, caper, spring, dance out · To what, where: wights, twinkling, last

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), 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 dressed	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dressed	nsubj
3	dressed	dress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 dressed	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 twinkling	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 twinkling	det
7	twinkling	twinkling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dressed	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 eye	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 eye	det
10	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 twinkling	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 danced	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 danced	cc
13	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dressed	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 capered	cc
15	capered	caper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 danced	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sprang	cc
17	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 danced	conj
18	about	about	ADV	_	17 sprang	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 merry	punct
20	as	as	ADP	_	21 merry	case
21	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 sprang	parataxis
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 be	mark
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 be	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 merry	advcl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 danced	punct
26	till	till	SCONJ	_	30 danced	mark
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 last	case
28	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 danced	obl
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 danced	nsubj
30	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 danced	conj
31	out	out	ADP	_	30 danced	compound:prt
32	at	at	ADP	_	34 door	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 door	det
34	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 danced	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 away	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 away	cc
37	away	away	ADV	_	3 dressed	advmod
38	over	over	ADP	_	40 green	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 green	det
40	green	green	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 away	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dress	past	wights = wight	wights = wight	the twinkling of a eye	then	away property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient
2	dance	past	wights = wight not said here					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	caper	past	wights = wight not said here					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	spring	past	wights = wight not said here				about property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	dance out	past	wights = wight		last		at the door	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=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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