Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 65
In his flight he had forgotten the most valuable things he had, the blue light and the gold, and had only one ducat in his pocket.
Who acts: soldier · What happens: forget, have · To what, where: valuable things, flight, one ducat, pocket
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 flight | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 flight | nmod:poss |
| 3 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 forgotten | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 forgotten | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 forgotten | aux |
| 6 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 things | det |
| 8 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 9 valuable | advmod |
| 9 | valuable | valuable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 things | amod |
| 10 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 forgotten | obj |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 things | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 light | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 light | det |
| 15 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 light | amod |
| 16 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 things | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 gold | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 gold | det |
| 19 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 light | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 had | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 had | cc |
| 22 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 forgotten | conj |
| 23 | only | only | ADV | _ | 24 one | advmod |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 ducat | nummod |
| 25 | ducat | ducat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 had | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 pocket | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 28 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 had | obl | ||
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 forgotten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | past · perfect | soldier | the valuable things the blue light and the gold | soldier's flight | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | past | soldier | the valuable things the blue light and the gold not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | ||||
| 3 | have | past | soldier not said here | one ducat | soldier's pocket | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ducat=Patient |
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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