Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 66
And now loaded with chains, he was standing at the window of his dungeon, when he chanced to see one of his comrades passing by.
Who acts: soldier, comrades · What happens: load, stand, chance, see, pass by · To what, where: window, one
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, comrades), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 loaded | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 loaded | advmod |
| 3 | loaded | load | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 chains | case |
| 5 | chains | chain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 loaded | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 standing | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 standing | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 standing | aux |
| 9 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 loaded | advcl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 window | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 window | det |
| 12 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 standing | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 dungeon | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 dungeon | nmod:poss |
| 15 | dungeon | dungeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 window | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 chanced | punct |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 chanced | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 chanced | nsubj |
| 19 | chanced | chance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 standing | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 see | mark |
| 21 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 chanced | xcomp |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 see | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 comrades | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 comrades | nmod:poss |
| 25 | comrades | comrade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 one | nmod |
| 26 | passing | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 comrades | acl |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 passing | fixed |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 loaded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | load | participle | now | with chains | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with chain=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | past · progressive | soldier | the window of soldier's dungeon | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at window=Location | ||||
| 3 | chance | past | soldier | vn risk-94-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | soldier not said here | one of soldier's comrades | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | pass by | gerund | soldier's comrades not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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