Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 27
‘Good,’ said the soldier; ‘then in the first place help me out of this well.’
What happens: say, help · To what, where: soldier, me, first place · 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: 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 | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 soldier | det |
| 7 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 help | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 help | punct |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 help | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 place | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 place | det |
| 13 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 place | amod |
| 14 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 help | obl |
| 15 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 help | obj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 this | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 this | case |
| 19 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 help | obl |
| 20 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 help | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the soldier | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | help | present | me | the first place | then | out this; well property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary |
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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