Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Four Clever Brothers, sentence 47

So the tailor took his needle, and with a few large stitches put some of the planks together; and he sat down upon these, and sailed about and gathered up all pieces of the boat; and then tacked them together so quickly that the boat was soon ready, and they then reached the ship and got home safe.

Who acts: tailor, few large stitches, beast, boat, stitches · What happens: take, put, sit down, sail, gather up, tack · To what, where: needle, some, these, pieces, ship

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Four Clever Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tailor, few large stitches, beast, boat), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 took	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tailor	det
3	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 needle	nmod:poss
6	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 put	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 put	cc
9	with	with	ADP	_	13 stitches	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 stitches	det
11	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stitches	amod
12	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stitches	amod
13	stitches	stitch	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 put	nsubj
14	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 took	parataxis
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 put	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 planks	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 planks	det
18	planks	plank	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 some	nmod
19	together	together	ADV	_	14 put	advmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 sat	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 sat	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 sat	nsubj
23	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
24	down	down	ADP	_	23 sat	compound:prt
25	upon	upon	ADP	_	26 these	case
26	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	23 sat	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sailed	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 sailed	cc
29	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
30	about	about	ADV	_	29 sailed	advmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 gathered	cc
32	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 sailed	conj
33	up	up	ADP	_	32 gathered	compound:prt
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 pieces	det
35	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 gathered	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 boat	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 boat	det
38	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 pieces	nmod
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 tacked	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 tacked	cc
41	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	42 tacked	advmod
42	tacked	tack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
43	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 tacked	obj
44	together	together	ADV	_	42 tacked	advmod
45	so	so	ADV	_	46 quickly	advmod
46	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	42 tacked	advmod
47	that	that	SCONJ	_	52 ready	mark
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 boat	det
49	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 ready	nsubj
50	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 ready	cop
51	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	52 ready	advmod
52	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 tacked	advcl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 reached	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 reached	cc
55	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 reached	nsubj
56	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	57 reached	advmod
57	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	parataxis
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 ship	det
59	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 reached	obj
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 got	cc
61	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 reached	conj
62	home	home	ADV	_	61 got	advmod
63	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 got	xcomp
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the tailor	beast's needle				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent needle=Theme
2	put	present	a few large stitches	some			together property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent some=Goal
3	sit down	past	beast		these			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon this=Location
4	sail	past	the tailor not said here				about property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
5	gather up	past	the tailor not said here	all pieces of the boat				vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme
6	tack	past	the tailor not said here	pieces = piece		then	quickly, together property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme they=Trajectory
7	is	past	the boat				ready, soon property	tree rules
8	reach	past	stitches = stitch	the ship		then		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ship=Theme
9	get	past	stitches = stitch not said here				home, safe property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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