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title: The thought pleased the good cobbler very much; and one evening, whe… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The thought pleased the good cobbler very much; and one evening, when all the things were ready, they laid them on the table, instead of the work that they used to cut out, and then went and hid themselves, to watch what the little elves would do. Who acts: things, wights, little elves. A sentence o
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Elves and the Shoemaker, sentence 20

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The thought pleased the good cobbler very much; and one evening, when all the things were ready, they laid them on the table, instead of the work that they used to cut out, and then went and hid themselves, to watch what the little elves would do.

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**Who acts:** things, wights, little elves · **What happens:** be, lay, use, cut out, go, hide · **To what, where:** shoes, table, work, wights

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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 (things, wights, little elves), 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:pg2591:37:20
# text = The thought pleased the good cobbler very much; and one evening, when all the things were ready, they laid them on the table, instead of the work that they used to cut out, and then went and hid themselves, to watch what the little elves would do.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	cobbler	cobbler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	much	much	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
15	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	17	det:predet	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	31	case	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	fixed	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	obj	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	_
37	out	out	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	41	advmod	_	_
41	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	parataxis	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	conj	_	_
44	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	43	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	advcl	_	_
48	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	53	obj	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	elves	elf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	nsubj	_	_
52	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
53	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | all things |  |  |  | evening | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lay** | past | wights *= wight* | shoes *= shoe* |  | the table |  | instead the work | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme on table=Destination |
| 3 | **use** | past | wights *= wight* | the work |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent that=Theme clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **cut out** | to-infinitive | wights *= wight* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 5 | **go** | past |  |  |  |  | then |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **hide** | past |  | wights *= wight* |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient |
| 7 | **watch** | to-infinitive | wights *= wight* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **do** | would | the little elves |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

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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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