Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 40

When it was ready and the soldier had taken possession of it, he summoned the little black manikin and said: ‘I have served the king faithfully, but he has dismissed me, and left me to hunger, and now I want to take my revenge.’

Who acts: landlord, soldier, I, my · What happens: be, take, summon, say, serve, dismiss · To what, where: soldier, little black manikin, king, me, revenge, landlord · 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 (landlord, soldier, I, my), 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 ready	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ready	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ready	cop
4	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 taken	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 soldier	det
7	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 taken	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 taken	aux
9	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 ready	conj
10	possession	possession	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 taken	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 possession	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 summoned	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 summoned	nsubj
15	summoned	summon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ready	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 manikin	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 manikin	amod
18	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 manikin	amod
19	manikin	manikin	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 summoned	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 said	cc
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 summoned	conj
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 served	punct
23	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 served	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 served	nsubj
25	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 served	aux
26	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 said	ccomp
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 king	det
28	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 served	obj
29	faithfully	faithfully	ADV	_	26 served	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 dismissed	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 dismissed	cc
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 dismissed	nsubj
33	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 dismissed	aux
34	dismissed	dismiss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 served	conj
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 dismissed	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 left	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 left	cc
38	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 summoned	conj
39	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 left	iobj
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 hunger	case
41	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 left	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 want	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 want	cc
44	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	46 want	advmod
45	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 want	nsubj
46	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 summoned	conj
47	to	to	PART	_	48 take	mark
48	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 want	xcomp
49	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 revenge	nmod:poss
50	revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 take	obj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ready	punct
52	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 ready	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	landlord				ready property	tree rules
2	take	past · perfect · passive		the soldier				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme possession=Destination
3	summon	past	soldier	the little black manikin				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manikin=Recipient
4	say speech: assert	past	soldier not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	serve	present · perfect	I	the king			faithfully property	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Attribute
6	dismiss	present · perfect	soldier	me				vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
7	leave	past	soldier not said here		me		to hunger	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Theme to hunger=Recipient
8	want	present	I			now		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
9	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	my revenge				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent revenge=Theme
10	possess			landlord				nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient
11	revenge		my					nom revenge «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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