Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 30

When he was above, he said to the little man: ‘Now go and bind the old witch, and carry her before the judge.’

Who acts: soldier · What happens: be, say, go, bind, carry · To what, where: old witch, witch · 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 (soldier), 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	ADV	PronType=Int	4 above	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 above	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 above	cop
4	above	above	ADV	_	7 said	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 above	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 man	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 go	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 go	punct
14	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 go	advmod
15	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 bind	cc
17	bind	bind	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 go	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 witch	det
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 witch	amod
20	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bind	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 carry	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 carry	cc
23	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 go	advcl
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 carry	obj
25	before	before	ADP	_	27 judge	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 judge	det
27	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 carry	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 go	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	soldier			above property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	soldier			to the little man	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to man=Experiencer clause=Topic
3	go	infinitive			now		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	bind	infinitive		the old witch			vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Patient
5	carry	infinitive		witch	before the judge		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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