Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 10
The soldier consented, and next day laboured with all his strength, but could not finish it by the evening.
Who acts: soldier · What happens: consent, labour, not finish · To what, where: strength
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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 soldier | det |
| 2 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 consented | nsubj |
| 3 | consented | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 laboured | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 laboured | cc |
| 6 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 day | amod |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 laboured | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | laboured | labour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 consented | conj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 strength | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 strength | det:predet |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 strength | nmod:poss |
| 12 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 laboured | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 finish | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 finish | cc |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 finish | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 finish | advmod |
| 17 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 laboured | advcl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 finish | obj |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 evening | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 evening | det |
| 21 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 finish | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 consented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consent | past | the soldier | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | labour | participle | the soldier not said here | day | with soldier's strength | vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with strength=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | not finish | could | the soldier not said here | strength | evening | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality |
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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