Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 19
The witch fell into a passion, let him fall again into the well, and went away.
Who acts: witch, soldier · What happens: fall, let, go away · To what, where: passion, soldier, well
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 (witch, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 witch | det |
| 2 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 passion | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 passion | det |
| 6 | passion | passion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
| 8 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 fell | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 let | obj |
| 10 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 let | xcomp |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 fall | advmod |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 well | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 well | det |
| 14 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fall | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 went | cc |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fell | conj |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 went | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the witch | into a passion result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into passion=Result | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | the witch not said here | soldier | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fall | infinitive | soldier not said here | again | into the well result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into well=Result | |||
| 4 | go away | past | the witch not said here | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/46/19/