Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 48
She, however, did everything he bade her, without opposition, silently and with half-shut eyes.
Who acts: door, o’clock · What happens: do, bade · To what, where: everything, door
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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 did | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 She | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 5 did | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 did | obj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bade | nsubj |
| 8 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 did | conj |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bade | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 opposition | punct |
| 11 | without | without | ADP | _ | 12 opposition | case |
| 12 | opposition | opposition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bade | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 silently | punct |
| 14 | silently | silently | ADV | _ | 8 bade | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 eyes | cc |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 eyes | case |
| 17 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 19 shut | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 half | punct |
| 19 | shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 eyes | amod |
| 20 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 silently | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | door | everything | however property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | bade | past | o’clock = o'clock | door | without opposition; silently property | tree rules |
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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