Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 24
When the smoke had circled about the cavern, suddenly a little black dwarf stood before him, and said: ‘Lord, what are your commands?’
Who acts: little black dwarf, Lord · What happens: circle, stand, say, be · To what, where: smoke, commands · 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 (little black dwarf, Lord), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 circled | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 smoke | det |
| 3 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 circled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 circled | aux |
| 5 | circled | circle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 cavern | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cavern | det |
| 8 | cavern | cavern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 circled | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stood | punct |
| 10 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 15 stood | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 dwarf | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 dwarf | amod |
| 13 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 dwarf | amod |
| 14 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stood | nsubj |
| 15 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 circled | conj |
| 16 | before | before | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 stood | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 stood | conj |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 Lord | punct |
| 22 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 Lord | punct |
| 23 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 said | ccomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 commands | punct |
| 25 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 28 commands | nsubj |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 commands | cop |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 commands | nmod:poss |
| 28 | commands | command | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 Lord | conj |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 23 Lord | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | circle | past · perfect · passive | the smoke | about the cavern | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | a little black dwarf | before soldier | suddenly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | a little black dwarf not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | Lord and your commands | your commands | 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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