Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 16

He found the blue light, and made her a signal to draw him up again.

Who acts: soldier · What happens: find, make, draw up · To what, where: blue light, signal, light, soldier

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 light	det
4	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 light	amod
5	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 made	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 made	cc
8	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 found	conj
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 made	obj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 signal	det
11	signal	signal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 draw	mark
13	draw	draw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 made	advcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 draw	obj
15	up	up	ADP	_	13 draw	compound:prt
16	again	again	ADV	_	13 draw	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	find	past	soldier	the blue light			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Topic
2	make	past	soldier not said here	a signal	light		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary signal=Product
3	draw up	to-infinitive	soldier not said here	soldier		again	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/46/16/