Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 47

When she had done this, he ordered her to come to his chair, and then he stretched out his feet and said: ‘Pull off my boots,’ and then he threw them in her face, and made her pick them up again, and clean and brighten them.

Who acts: door, o’clock · What happens: do, order, come, stretch out, say, pull off · To what, where: this, door, chair, feet, boots, face · 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 (door, o’clock), 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 done	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 done	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 done	aux
4	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 ordered	advcl
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 done	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 done	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ordered	nsubj
8	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ordered	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 come	mark
11	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 ordered	xcomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 chair	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 chair	nmod:poss
14	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 come	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 stretched	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 stretched	cc
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 stretched	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 stretched	nsubj
19	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 ordered	parataxis
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 stretched	compound:prt
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 feet	nmod:poss
22	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 stretched	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 said	cc
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 stretched	conj
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 Pull	punct
26	‘	'	PUNCT	_	27 Pull	punct
27	Pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 said	ccomp
28	off	off	ADP	_	27 Pull	compound:prt
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 boots	nmod:poss
30	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 Pull	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Pull	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	27 Pull	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 threw	cc
34	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 threw	advmod
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 threw	nsubj
36	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 said	conj
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 threw	obj
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 face	case
39	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 face	nmod:poss
40	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 threw	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 made	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 made	cc
43	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 ordered	conj
44	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 made	obj
45	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 made	xcomp
46	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 pick	obj
47	up	up	ADP	_	45 pick	compound:prt
48	again	again	ADV	_	45 pick	advmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 clean	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 clean	cc
51	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 pick	parataxis
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 brighten	cc
53	brighten	brighten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 clean	conj
54	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 brighten	obj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 ordered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	do	past · perfect	door	this				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality
2	order	past	o’clock = o'clock		door			vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	come not said to happen	to-infinitive	o’clock = o'clock not said here			o’clock's chair		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to chair=Initial_Location
4	stretch out	past	o’clock = o'clock	o’clock's feet			then	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent foot=Patient
5	say speech: assert	past	o’clock = o'clock not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	pull off	infinitive		my boots				vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boot=Eventuality
7	throw	past	o’clock = o'clock	boots = boot		door's face	then	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme in face=Destination
8	make	past	o’clock = o'clock not said here	door				tree rules
9	pick up	infinitive	door not said here	boots = boot			again	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
10	clean	infinitive						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
11	brighten	infinitive		boots = boot				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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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