Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 17

She did draw him up, but when he came near the edge, she stretched down her hand and wanted to take the blue light away from him.

Who acts: light, soldier · What happens: draw up, come, stretch down, want, take · To what, where: soldier, edge, hand, blue light

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, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 draw	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 draw	aux
3	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 draw	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 draw	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stretched	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 stretched	cc
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 came	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 stretched	advcl
11	near	near	ADP	_	13 edge	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 edge	det
13	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 stretched	nsubj
16	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 draw	parataxis
17	down	down	ADP	_	16 stretched	compound:prt
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 hand	nmod:poss
19	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stretched	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 wanted	cc
21	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 stretched	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 take	mark
23	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 wanted	xcomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 light	det
25	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 light	amod
26	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 take	obj
27	away	away	ADV	_	23 take	advmod
28	from	from	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 away	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 draw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw up	past · do-support	light	soldier			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	come	past	soldier		the edge		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near edge=Location
3	stretch down	past	light	light's hand			vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
4	want	past	light not said here				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	light not said here	the blue light		away property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=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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