Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Elves and the Shoemaker, sentence 3
His conscience was clear and his heart light amidst all his troubles; so he went peaceably to bed, left all his cares to Heaven, and soon fell asleep.
Who acts: conscience, shoemaker · What happens: be, go, leave, fall, light, trouble · To what, where: bed, cares, Heaven
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 (conscience, 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 conscience | nmod:poss |
| 2 | conscience | conscience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 clear | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 clear | cop |
| 4 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 light | cc |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 light | nmod:poss |
| 7 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 light | compound |
| 8 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 clear | conj |
| 9 | amidst | amidst | ADP | _ | 12 troubles | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 troubles | det:predet |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 troubles | nmod:poss |
| 12 | troubles | trouble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 light | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 went | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 went | nsubj |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 clear | parataxis |
| 17 | peaceably | peaceably | ADV | _ | 16 went | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 bed | case |
| 19 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 left | punct |
| 21 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 went | conj |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 cares | det:predet |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 cares | nmod:poss |
| 24 | cares | care | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 left | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 Heaven | case |
| 26 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 cares | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 fell | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 fell | cc |
| 29 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 fell | advmod |
| 30 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 clear | parataxis |
| 31 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 fell | xcomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 clear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | shoemaker's conscience | clear property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past | shoemaker | bed | peaceably property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | leave | past | shoemaker not said here | shoemaker's cares | Heaven | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent care=Theme to heaven=Recipient | |||
| 4 | fall | past | asleep, soon property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | light | shoemaker | amidst shoemaker's troubles | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent amidst=obl | |||||
| 6 | trouble | shoemaker | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | care | shoemaker | to Heaven | nom care «act intransitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
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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