Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 60

‘We must think of something else,’ said the king; ‘keep your shoes on when you go to bed, and before you come back from the place where you are taken, hide one of them there, I will soon contrive to find it.’

Who acts: We, you, I · What happens: think, say, keep on, go, come back, take · To what, where: king, shoes, bed, place, you, one · 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 (We, you, 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 think	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 think	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 think	aux
4	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 something	case
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 think	obl
7	else	else	ADV	_	6 something	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 think	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 king	det
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 keep	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 keep	punct
15	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 think	conj
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 shoes	nmod:poss
17	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 keep	obj
18	on	on	ADP	_	15 keep	compound:prt
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 go	advmod
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 go	nsubj
21	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 keep	advcl
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 bed	case
23	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 go	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 come	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 come	cc
26	before	before	SCONJ	_	28 come	mark
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 come	nsubj
28	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 think	parataxis
29	back	back	ADV	_	28 come	advmod
30	from	from	ADP	_	32 place	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 place	det
32	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 come	obl
33	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	36 taken	advmod
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 taken	nsubj
35	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 taken	aux:pass
36	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 place	acl:relcl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 hide	punct
38	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 come	conj
39	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 hide	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 them	case
41	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 one	nmod
42	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 hide	advmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 contrive	punct
44	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 contrive	nsubj
45	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 contrive	aux
46	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	47 contrive	advmod
47	contrive	contrive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 think	parataxis
48	to	to	PART	_	49 find	mark
49	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 contrive	xcomp
50	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 find	obj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct
52	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	must	We			of something	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	We not said here	the king			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent king=Topic
3	keep on	infinitive	We not said here	your shoes			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme
4	go	present	you		bed		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
5	come back	present	you		the place		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from place=Initial_Location
6	take	present · passive		you			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination
7	hide	infinitive	you not said here	one of shoes	there		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
8	contrive	future	I			soon property	tree rules
9	find	to-infinitive	I not said here	place			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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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