Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Elves and the Shoemaker, sentence 8
In the evening he cut out the work, and went to bed early, that he might get up and begin betimes next day; but he was saved all the trouble, for when he got up in the morning the work was done ready to his hand.
Who acts: customer, work · What happens: cut out, go, get up, begin, save, be · To what, where: work, bed, customer, morning
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 (customer, work), 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 evening | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 evening | det |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cut | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 cut | nsubj |
| 5 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 cut | compound:prt |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 work | det |
| 8 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cut | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cut | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 bed | case |
| 13 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 14 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 went | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 get | punct |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 get | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 get | nsubj |
| 18 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 get | aux |
| 19 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 went | parataxis |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 get | compound:prt |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 begin | cc |
| 22 | begin | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 get | conj |
| 23 | betimes | betimes | ADV | _ | 22 begin | advmod |
| 24 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 day | amod |
| 25 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 begin | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 saved | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 saved | cc |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 saved | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 saved | aux:pass |
| 30 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 cut | conj |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 trouble | det:predet |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 trouble | det |
| 33 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 saved | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 got | punct |
| 35 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 38 got | mark |
| 36 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 38 got | advmod |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 got | nsubj |
| 38 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 saved | conj |
| 39 | up | up | ADP | _ | 38 got | compound:prt |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 morning | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 morning | det |
| 42 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 got | obl |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 work | det |
| 44 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 ready | nsubj |
| 45 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 ready | cop |
| 46 | done | done | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 ready | amod |
| 47 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 morning | acl:relcl |
| 48 | to | to | ADP | _ | 50 hand | case |
| 49 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 hand | nmod:poss |
| 50 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 ready | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut out | past | customer | the work | evening | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector work=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | go | past | customer not said here | bed | early property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | get up | might | customer | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | begin | present | customer not said here | day | betimes property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | save | past · passive | customer | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary trouble=Theme | |||||
| 6 | get up | past | customer | morning | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | is | past | the work | the morning not said here | to customer's hand; ready property | 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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