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title: He cut out the work again overnight and found it done in the morning… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He cut out the work again overnight and found it done in the morning, as before; and so it went on for some time: what was got ready in the evening was always done by daybreak, and the good man soon became thriving and well off again. Who acts: customer, work, daybreak, good man. A sentence of «Grim
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Elves and the Shoemaker, sentence 10

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He cut out the work again overnight and found it done in the morning, as before; and so it went on for some time: what was got ready in the evening was always done by daybreak, and the good man soon became thriving and well off again.

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**Who acts:** customer, work, daybreak, good man · **What happens:** cut out, find, do, go on, get, become · **To what, where:** work, time

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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, daybreak, good man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2591:37:10
# text = He cut out the work again overnight and found it done in the morning, as before; and so it went on for some time: what was got ready in the evening was always done by daybreak, and the good man soon became thriving and well off again.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
7	overnight	overnight	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	xcomp	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	before	before	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
26	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
28	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	30	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl:relcl	_	_
31	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	xcomp	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
36	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	37	advmod	_	_
37	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	xcomp	_	_
38	by	by	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	daybreak	daybreak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
45	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	46	advmod	_	_
46	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
47	thriving	thrive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	46	xcomp	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	well	well	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	conj	_	_
50	off	off	ADP	RP	_	49	compound:prt	_	_
51	again	again	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut out** | past | customer | the work |  |  | again | overnight *property* | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector work=Eventuality |
| 2 | **find** | past | customer *not said here* | work |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | participle | work *not said here* |  |  |  | morning | before *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **go on** | past | work |  |  |  | time |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **get** | past · passive |  | some time |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **do** | past · passive | daybreak |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **become** | past | the good man |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **thrive** | gerund | the good man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **well off** | past | the good man *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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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