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title: He looked at the workmanship; there was not one false stitch in the… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Elves and the Shoemaker, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Elves and the Shoemaker, sentence 6

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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.

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

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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 (man, one false stitch, all, stitch), 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:pg2591:37:6
# text = 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.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	workmanship	workmanship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
8	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
11	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	stitch	stitch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	neat	neat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	quite	quite	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	30	det:predet	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	masterpiece	masterpiece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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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