Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 51

‘I was carried through the streets with the rapidity of lightning,’ said she, ‘and taken into a soldier’s room, and I had to wait upon him like a servant, sweep his room, clean his boots, and do all kinds of menial work.

Who acts: princess, I · What happens: carry, say, take, have, wait, sweep · To what, where: I, streets, room, boots, kinds · 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 (princess, I), 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 carried	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 carried	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 carried	aux:pass
4	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 said	ccomp
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 streets	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 streets	det
7	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 carried	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 rapidity	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rapidity	det
10	rapidity	rapidity	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carried	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 lightning	case
12	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rapidity	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 carried	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 carried	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 taken	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 taken	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 taken	cc
20	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 said	conj
21	into	into	ADP	_	25 room	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 soldier	det
23	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 room	nmod:poss
24	’s	's	PART	_	23 soldier	case
25	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 taken	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 had	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 had	cc
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 had	nsubj
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 taken	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 wait	mark
31	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 had	xcomp
32	upon	upon	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 wait	obl
34	like	like	ADP	_	36 servant	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 servant	det
36	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 wait	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 sweep	punct
38	sweep	sweep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 wait	conj
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 room	nmod:poss
40	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 sweep	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 clean	punct
42	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 sweep	conj
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 boots	nmod:poss
44	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 clean	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 do	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 do	cc
47	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 sweep	conj
48	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	49 kinds	det
49	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 do	obj
50	of	of	ADP	_	52 work	case
51	menial	menial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 work	amod
52	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 kinds	nmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	carry	past · passive		I	the streets	with the rapidity of lightning	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	princess				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	take	participle	princess not said here		a soldier's room		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into room=Destination
4	have	past	I				tree rules
5	wait	to-infinitive	I not said here			upon soldier; like a servant	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Location
6	sweep	infinitive	I not said here	soldier's room			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Trajectory
7	clean	infinitive	I not said here	soldier's boots			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent boot=Patient
8	do	infinitive	I not said here	all kinds of menial work			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Eventuality

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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