Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 35
‘At this moment, none,’ answered the soldier; ‘you can return home, only be at hand immediately, if I summon you.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: answer, return, be, summon · To what, where: soldier, hand, you
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 (you, I), 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 | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 2 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 moment | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 moment | det |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 none | punct |
| 6 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 4 moment | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 moment | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 soldier | det |
| 11 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 return | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 return | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 return | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 return | aux |
| 16 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 answered | parataxis |
| 17 | home | home | ADV | _ | 16 return | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 hand | punct |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 22 hand | advmod |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 hand | cop |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 hand | case |
| 22 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 return | obl |
| 23 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 22 hand | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 summon | punct |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 27 summon | mark |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 summon | nsubj |
| 27 | summon | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 return | conj |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 summon | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the soldier | moment | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent soldier=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | return | can | you | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | infinitive | hand | immediately property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | summon a condition, not said to happen | present | I | you | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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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