Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 20

The poor soldier fell without injury on the moist ground, and the blue light went on burning, but of what use was that to him?

Who acts: poor soldier, blue light · What happens: fall, go, burn, be · To what, where: moist ground, that

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 (poor soldier, blue 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 soldier	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 soldier	amod
3	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	without	without	ADP	_	6 injury	case
6	injury	injury	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	obl
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 ground	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ground	det
9	moist	moist	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ground	amod
10	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 went	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 went	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 light	det
14	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 light	amod
15	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 went	nsubj
16	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fell	conj
17	on	on	SCONJ	_	18 burning	mark
18	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 went	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 what	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 what	cc
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 what	case
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 fell	advcl
23	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 what	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 that	cop
25	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 what	nsubj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 what	nmod
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the poor soldier		the moist ground	without injury	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on ground=Location
2	go	past	the blue light				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	burn	gerund	the blue light not said here				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	past		that			tree rules

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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