Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 62

‘Do what I bid you,’ replied the soldier, and again this third night the princess was obliged to work like a servant, but before she went away, she hid her shoe under the bed.

Who acts: you, I, princess · What happens: do, bid, reply, oblige, work, go away · To what, where: you, soldier, princess, shoe, bed

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 (you, I, princess), 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	_	2 Do	punct
2	Do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 Do	obj
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 bid	nsubj
5	bid	bid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 what	acl:relcl
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 bid	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 replied	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 replied	punct
9	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Do	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 soldier	det
11	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 replied	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 obliged	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 obliged	cc
14	again	again	ADV	_	17 night	advmod
15	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 night	det
16	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 night	amod
17	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 obliged	obl:unmarked
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 princess	det
19	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 obliged	nsubj:pass
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 obliged	aux:pass
21	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Do	advcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 work	mark
23	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 obliged	advcl
24	like	like	ADP	_	26 servant	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 servant	det
26	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 work	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 hid	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 hid	cc
29	before	before	SCONJ	_	31 went	mark
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 went	nsubj
31	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 hid	advcl
32	away	away	ADV	_	31 went	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 went	punct
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 hid	nsubj
35	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Do	advcl
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 shoe	nmod:poss
37	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 hid	obj
38	under	under	ADP	_	40 bed	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 bed	det
40	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 hid	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	imperative	you not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	bid	past	I	you				tree rules
3	reply speech: assert	past	you not said here	the soldier				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent soldier=Topic
4	oblige	past · passive		the princess		night		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	work	to-infinitive					like a servant	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	go away	past	princess				away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	hide	past	princess	princess's shoe	the bed			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent shoe=Patient under bed=Location

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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