Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 14

Behind my house, there is an old dry well, into which my light has fallen, it burns blue, and never goes out, and you shall bring it up again.’

Who acts: light, dry, you, my · What happens: be, burn, not go out, bring up, light · To what, where: dry

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 (light, dry, you, my), 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	Behind	behind	ADP	_	3 house	case
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 house	nmod:poss
3	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 is	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 house	punct
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 is	expl
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 fallen	cop
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 dry	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dry	amod
9	dry	dry	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 is	nsubj
10	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 is	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fallen	punct
12	into	into	ADP	_	13 which	case
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 fallen	obl
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 light	nmod:poss
15	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fallen	nsubj
16	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 fallen	aux
17	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 burns	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fallen	punct
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 burns	nsubj
20	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 burns	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 goes	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 goes	cc
24	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	25 goes	advmod
25	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 burns	conj
26	out	out	ADP	_	25 goes	compound:prt
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 bring	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 bring	cc
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 bring	nsubj
30	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 bring	aux
31	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 burns	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 bring	obj
33	up	up	ADP	_	31 bring	compound:prt
34	again	again	ADV	_	31 bring	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 burns	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	20 burns	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present · perfect	my light			fall property	tree rules
2	burn	present	dry			blue property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not go out	present	dry not said here				vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	bring up	shall	you	dry	again		vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	light		my				nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent

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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