Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 42
‘Late at night, when the king’s daughter is in bed, bring her here in her sleep, she shall do servant’s work for me.’
Who acts: daughter, you, dwarf, servant · What happens: be, bring, do, sleep, work · To what, where: bed, dwarf, sleep, work
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 (daughter, you, dwarf, servant), 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 | _ | 4 night | punct |
| 2 | Late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 night | advmod |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 night | case |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bring | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bed | punct |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 bed | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 king | case |
| 10 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bed | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 bed | cop |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 bed | case |
| 13 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 night | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 night | punct |
| 15 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 bring | obj |
| 17 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 bring | advmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 sleep | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 sleep | nmod:poss |
| 20 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bring | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 do | punct |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 do | nsubj |
| 23 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 do | aux |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 bring | parataxis |
| 25 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 work | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 servant | case |
| 27 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 do | obj |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 me | case |
| 29 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 do | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 bring | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the king's daughter | bed | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bring | imperative | you not said here | dwarf | dwarf's sleep; here | night | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | ||
| 3 | do | shall | dwarf | servant's work | for me | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | sleep | dwarf | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | work | servant | nom work «act intransitive»: 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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