Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 28

The little man took him by the hand, and led him through an underground passage, but he did not forget to take the blue light with him.

Who acts: little man, man · What happens: take, lead, not forget · To what, where: soldier, underground passage, 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 (little man, man), 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 man	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	obj
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 hand	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hand	det
8	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 led	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 led	cc
11	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	parataxis
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 led	obj
13	through	through	ADP	_	16 passage	case
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 passage	det
15	underground	underground	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 passage	amod
16	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 led	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 forget	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 forget	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 forget	nsubj
20	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 forget	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 forget	advmod
22	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 led	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 take	mark
24	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 forget	xcomp
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 light	det
26	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 light	amod
27	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 take	obj
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 take	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	the little man		soldier		by the hand	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
2	lead	past		soldier		a underground passage		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme through passage=Destination
3	not forget	past · do-support	man					tree rules
4	take	to-infinitive	man not said here	the blue light			with soldier	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=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.

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