Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Elves and the Shoemaker, sentence 4
In the morning after he had said his prayers, he sat himself down to his work; when, to his great wonder, there stood the shoes all ready made, upon the table.
Who acts: shoemaker, great wonder · What happens: say, sit down, stand, make, pray, work · To what, where: prayers, shoemaker, shoes · Speech: someone speaks here
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, great wonder), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 morning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 4 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 7 said | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | aux |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 prayers | nmod:poss |
| 9 | prayers | prayer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sat | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sat | nsubj |
| 12 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 sat | obj |
| 14 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 sat | compound:prt |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 work | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 work | nmod:poss |
| 17 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sat | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 stood | punct |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 stood | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 wonder | punct |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 wonder | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 wonder | nmod:poss |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 wonder | amod |
| 24 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 stood | nsubj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 wonder | punct |
| 26 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 27 stood | expl |
| 27 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 shoes | det |
| 29 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 stood | obj |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 stood | obj |
| 31 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 stood | xcomp |
| 32 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 ready | xcomp |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 table | punct |
| 34 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 36 table | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 table | det |
| 36 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 made | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · perfect | shoemaker | shoemaker's prayers | morning | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prayer=Topic | |||
| 2 | sit down | past | shoemaker | shoemaker | to shoemaker's work | tree rules | |||
| 3 | stand | past | shoemaker's great wonder | the shoes | there | ready property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme all=Destination | ||
| 4 | make | participle | shoemaker's great wonder not said here | upon the table | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 5 | pray | shoemaker | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | work | shoemaker | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | wonder | shoemaker | nom wonder «feeling transitive»: 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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