Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 67

The soldier tapped at the pane of glass, and when this man came up, said to him: ‘Be so kind as to fetch me the small bundle I have left lying in the inn, and I will give you a ducat for doing it.’

Who acts: soldier, man, I, small bundle · What happens: tap, come up, say, be, fetch, leave · To what, where: soldier, small bundle, me, inn, ducat, you · 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 (soldier, man, I, small bundle), 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	2 soldier	det
2	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tapped	nsubj
3	tapped	tap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 pane	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pane	det
6	pane	pane	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tapped	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 glass	case
8	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pane	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 came	mark
12	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 man	det
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 said	advcl
15	up	up	ADV	_	14 came	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tapped	parataxis
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	obl
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 kind	punct
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 kind	punct
22	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 kind	cop
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 kind	advmod
24	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 said	ccomp
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 fetch	mark
26	to	to	PART	_	27 fetch	mark
27	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 kind	xcomp
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 fetch	obj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 bundle	det
30	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 bundle	amod
31	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fetch	obj
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 left	nsubj
33	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 left	aux
34	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 bundle	acl:relcl
35	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 left	xcomp
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 inn	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 inn	det
38	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 lying	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 give	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 give	cc
41	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 give	nsubj
42	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 give	aux
43	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 kind	conj
44	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 give	iobj
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 ducat	det
46	ducat	ducat	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 give	obj
47	for	for	SCONJ	_	48 doing	mark
48	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	43 give	advcl
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 doing	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tapped	punct
51	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 tapped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tap	past	the soldier				at the pane of glass	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at pane=Patient
2	come up	past	this man					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past			soldier			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
4	is	infinitive					kind property	tree rules
5	fetch	to-infinitive		the small bundle	me			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary bundle=Theme
6	leave	present · perfect	I	the small bundle not said here				tree rules
7	lie	gerund	the small bundle not said here			the inn		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in inn=Location
8	give	future	I	a ducat	you			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient ducat=Theme
9	do	gerund	I not said here	ducat				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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