Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 12
The soldier spent the whole day in doing it, and in the evening the witch proposed that he should stay one night more.
Who acts: soldier, witch · What happens: spend, do, propose, stay · To what, where: load, more
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, witch), 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 spent | nsubj |
| 3 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 day | det |
| 5 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 day | amod |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spent | obj |
| 7 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 8 doing | mark |
| 8 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 spent | advcl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 doing | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 proposed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 proposed | cc |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 evening | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 evening | det |
| 14 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 proposed | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 witch | det |
| 16 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 proposed | nsubj |
| 17 | proposed | propose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spent | conj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 stay | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 stay | nsubj |
| 20 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 stay | aux |
| 21 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 proposed | ccomp |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 night | nummod |
| 23 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stay | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 stay | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | past | the soldier | day | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | do | gerund | the soldier not said here | load | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | propose | past | the witch | evening | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | stay | should | soldier | more | night | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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