Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 1

There was once upon a time a soldier who for many years had served the king faithfully, but when the war came to an end could serve no longer because of the many wounds which he had received.

Who acts: soldier, war · What happens: be, serve, come, receive · To what, where: king, end, many wounds

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Blue Light. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier, war), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 time	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 soldier	det
8	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 time	appos
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 served	nsubj
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 years	case
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 years	amod
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 served	obl
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 served	aux
14	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 soldier	acl:relcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 king	det
16	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 served	obj
17	faithfully	faithfully	ADV	_	14 served	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 serve	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 serve	cc
20	when	when	SCONJ	_	23 came	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 war	det
22	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 came	nsubj
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 serve	advcl
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 end	case
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 end	det
26	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 came	obl
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 serve	aux
28	serve	serve	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
29	no	no	ADV	_	30 longer	advmod
30	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 serve	advmod
31	because	because	SCONJ	_	39 received	mark
32	of	of	ADP	_	31 because	fixed
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 wounds	det
34	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 wounds	amod
35	wounds	wound	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 received	nsubj:pass
36	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 received	nsubj:pass
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 received	nsubj
38	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 received	aux
39	received	receive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 longer	advcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past			there	time	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	serve	past · perfect	a soldier	the king		year	faithfully property	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Attribute
3	come	past	the war			to a end		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location
4	serve	could					long property	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent
5	receive	past · perfect · passive		the many wounds				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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