Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 45
‘Aha! are you there?’ cried the soldier, ‘get to your work at once!
Who acts: you, your · What happens: be, cry, get, work · To what, where: 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 (you, your), 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 | _ | 6 there | punct |
| 2 | Aha | aha | INTJ | _ | 6 there | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Aha | punct |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 there | cop |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 there | nsubj |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 cried | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 there | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 there | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 soldier | det |
| 11 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 get | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 get | punct |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 cried | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 work | case |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 work | nmod:poss |
| 17 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 get | obl |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 once | case |
| 19 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 14 get | obl |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the soldier | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Topic | |||||
| 3 | get | infinitive | to your work result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to work=Result | |||||
| 4 | work | your | 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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