Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 23
‘This shall be my last pleasure,’ thought he, pulled it out, lit it at the blue light and began to smoke.
Who acts: This, last pleasure · What happens: be, think, pull out, light, begin, smoke · To what, where: last pleasure, soldier, pleasure, 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 (This, last pleasure), 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 | _ | 7 pleasure | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 pleasure | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 pleasure | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 pleasure | cop |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 pleasure | nmod:poss |
| 6 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pleasure | amod |
| 7 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thought | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 pleasure | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 pleasure | punct |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 thought | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pulled | punct |
| 13 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 thought | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 pulled | obj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 pulled | compound:prt |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lit | punct |
| 17 | lit | light | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 thought | parataxis |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 lit | obj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 light | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 light | det |
| 21 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 light | amod |
| 22 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lit | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 began | cc |
| 24 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 lit | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 smoke | mark |
| 26 | smoke | smoke | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 began | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | shall | This | my last pleasure | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | my last pleasure | soldier | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pull out | past | my last pleasure not said here | pleasure | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | light | past | pleasure | the blue light | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product | ||||
| 5 | begin | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 6 | smoke | to-infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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