Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 61

The black manikin heard this plot, and at night when the soldier again ordered him to bring the princess, revealed it to him, and told him that he knew of no expedient to counteract this stratagem, and that if the shoe were found in the soldier’s house it would go badly with him.

Who acts: black manikin, soldier, king, stratagem · What happens: hear, order, bring, reveal, tell, know · To what, where: plot, king, princess, stratagem, shoe, house · 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 (black manikin, soldier, king, stratagem), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 manikin	det
2	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 manikin	amod
3	manikin	manikin	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 revealed	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 manikin	acl
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 plot	det
6	plot	plot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 night	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 night	cc
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 night	case
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 manikin	conj
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 ordered	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 soldier	det
13	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ordered	nsubj
14	again	again	ADV	_	13 soldier	advmod
15	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 night	advcl
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 ordered	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 bring	mark
18	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 ordered	xcomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 princess	det
20	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bring	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 manikin	punct
22	revealed	reveal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 revealed	obj
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 revealed	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 told	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 told	cc
28	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 revealed	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 told	iobj
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 knew	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 knew	nsubj
32	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 told	advcl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 expedient	case
34	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	35 expedient	det
35	expedient	expedient	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 knew	obl
36	to	to	PART	_	37 counteract	mark
37	counteract	counteract	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 knew	advcl
38	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	39 stratagem	det
39	stratagem	stratagem	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 counteract	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 go	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 go	cc
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 found	mark
43	if	if	SCONJ	_	47 found	mark
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 shoe	det
45	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 found	nsubj:pass
46	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 found	aux:pass
47	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	55 go	advcl
48	in	in	ADP	_	52 house	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 soldier	det
50	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 house	nmod:poss
51	’s	's	PART	_	50 soldier	case
52	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 found	obl
53	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 go	nsubj
54	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 go	aux
55	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 told	ccomp
56	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	55 go	advmod
57	with	with	ADP	_	58 him	case
58	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 go	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 revealed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	participle	the black manikin and night not said here	this plot				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer plot=Stimulus
2	order	past	the soldier		king			vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	bring not said to happen	to-infinitive	the soldier not said here		the princess			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument princess=Destination
4	reveal	past	the black manikin and night	plot	king			vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to he=Recipient
5	tell speech: assert	past	the black manikin and night not said here		king			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
6	know	past	king				of no expedient	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of expedient=Stimulus
7	counteract	to-infinitive	king not said here	this stratagem				vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent stratagem=Patient
8	find a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		the shoe		the soldier's house		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
9	go	would	stratagem				with king; badly property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary

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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