Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 64
It was found at the soldier’s, and the soldier himself, who at the entreaty of the dwarf had gone outside the gate, was soon brought back, and thrown into prison.
Who acts: soldier · What happens: find, go, bring back, throw · To what, where: town, soldier, entreaty, prison
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 (soldier), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 found | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 found | aux:pass |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 soldier | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 soldier | det |
| 6 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obl |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 soldier | case |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 brought | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 brought | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 soldier | det |
| 11 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 gone | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 gone | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 gone | nsubj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 entreaty | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 entreaty | det |
| 17 | entreaty | entreaty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gone | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 dwarf | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 dwarf | det |
| 20 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 entreaty | nmod |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 gone | aux |
| 22 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 soldier | acl:relcl |
| 23 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 25 gate | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 gate | det |
| 25 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gone | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 soldier | punct |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 brought | aux:pass |
| 28 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 brought | advmod |
| 29 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 found | conj |
| 30 | back | back | ADV | _ | 29 brought | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 thrown | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 thrown | cc |
| 33 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 found | conj |
| 34 | into | into | ADP | _ | 35 prison | case |
| 35 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 thrown | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past · passive | town | the soldier | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: subject=Theme at soldier=Asset | ||||
| 2 | go | past · perfect | soldier | the entreaty of the dwarf | outside the gate | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at entreaty=Location | |||
| 3 | bring back | past · passive | the soldier | soon property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | throw | participle | into prison result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer into prison=Result |
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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