Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 4
When darkness came on, he saw a light, which he went up to, and came to a house wherein lived a witch.
Who acts: darkness, light · What happens: come on, see, go up, come, live · To what, where: light, house, witch
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 (darkness, light), 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 | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 saw | advcl |
| 4 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 light | det |
| 9 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 went | nsubj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 light | acl:relcl |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 went | compound:prt |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 went | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 came | cc |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 saw | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 house | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 house | det |
| 21 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obl |
| 22 | wherein | wherein | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 lived | advmod |
| 23 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 came | advcl |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 witch | det |
| 25 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lived | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come on | past | darkness | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | past | darkness | a light | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | go up | past | a light | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | come | past | darkness not said here | a house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | live | past | darkness not said here | a witch | wherein property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme witch=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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