Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Elves and the Shoemaker, sentence 6

He looked at the workmanship; there was not one false stitch in the whole job; all was so neat and true, that it was quite a masterpiece.

Who acts: man, one false stitch, all, stitch · What happens: look, be · To what, where: masterpiece

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 (man, one false stitch, all, stitch), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 workmanship	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 workmanship	det
5	workmanship	workmanship	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	obl
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 was	punct
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 was	expl
8	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	parataxis
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 stitch	advmod
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 stitch	nummod
11	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 stitch	amod
12	stitch	stitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 was	nsubj
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 job	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 job	det
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 job	amod
16	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stitch	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 neat	punct
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 neat	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 neat	cop
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 neat	advmod
21	neat	neat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 looked	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 true	cc
23	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 neat	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 masterpiece	punct
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 masterpiece	mark
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 masterpiece	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 masterpiece	cop
28	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	30 masterpiece	det:predet
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 masterpiece	det
30	masterpiece	masterpiece	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 neat	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	man			at the workmanship	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at workmanship=Theme
2	be	past	one false stitch in the whole job		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	all			neat property	tree rules
4	be		all not said here				tree rules
5	is a	past	stitch	quite masterpiece			tree rules

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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