Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 18

‘No,’ said he, perceiving her evil intention, ‘I will not give you the light until I am standing with both feet upon the ground.’

Who acts: soldier, I, light · What happens: say, perceive, not give, stand, intend · To what, where: evil intention, light, you, ground · Speech: someone speaks here

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, I, light), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 perceiving	punct
8	perceiving	perceive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 said	advcl
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 intention	nmod:poss
10	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 intention	amod
11	intention	intention	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 perceiving	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 give	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 give	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 give	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 give	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 give	advmod
17	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 perceiving	conj
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 give	iobj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 light	det
20	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 give	obj
21	until	until	SCONJ	_	24 standing	mark
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 standing	nsubj
23	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 standing	aux
24	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 give	advcl
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 feet	case
26	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	27 feet	det
27	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 standing	obl
28	upon	upon	ADP	_	30 ground	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 ground	det
30	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 standing	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	soldier					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	perceive	gerund	soldier not said here	light's evil intention				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer intention=Stimulus
3	not give	future	I	the light	you			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient light=Theme
4	stand	present · progressive	I			the ground	with both feet	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon ground=Location
5	intend		light					nom intention «cognition 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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