Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 36

‘Nothing more is needed than that you should light your pipe at the blue light, and I will appear before you at once.’

Who acts: you, I · What happens: need, light, appear · To what, where: Nothing, pipe, 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 (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	_	5 needed	punct
2	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 needed	nsubj:pass
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 Nothing	amod
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 needed	aux:pass
5	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	than	than	SCONJ	_	10 light	mark
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 light	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 light	nsubj
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 light	aux
10	light	light	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 needed	advcl
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 pipe	nmod:poss
12	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 light	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	16 light	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 light	det
15	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 light	amod
16	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 light	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 appear	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 appear	cc
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 appear	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 appear	aux
21	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 needed	advcl
22	before	before	ADP	_	23 you	case
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 appear	obl
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 once	case
25	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	21 appear	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 needed	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 needed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	need	present · passive		Nothing			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme
2	light	should	you	your pipe	the blue light		vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pipe=Product
3	appear	future	I			before you	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before you=Location

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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