Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 39
He went to the best inn, ordered himself handsome clothes, and then bade the landlord furnish him a room as handsome as possible.
Who acts: soldier, landlord · What happens: go, order, bade, furnish · To what, where: best inn, soldier
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, landlord), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 inn | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 inn | det |
| 5 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 inn | amod |
| 6 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ordered | punct |
| 8 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 ordered | obj |
| 10 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 clothes | amod |
| 11 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 8 ordered | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bade | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 bade | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 bade | advmod |
| 15 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 landlord | det |
| 17 | landlord | landlord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 furnish | nsubj |
| 18 | furnish | furnish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 bade | ccomp |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 furnish | obj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 room | det |
| 21 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 furnish | obj |
| 22 | as | as | ADV | _ | 23 handsome | advmod |
| 23 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 room | amod |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 possible | mark |
| 25 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 handsome | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | soldier | the best inn | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to inn=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | order | past | soldier | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary clothes=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bade | past | soldier not said here | then | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | furnish | infinitive | the landlord | soldier | tree rules |
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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