Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 69

As soon as the soldier was alone again, he lighted his pipe and summoned the black manikin.

Who acts: soldier · What happens: be, light, summon · To what, where: pipe, black manikin

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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 lighted	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 again	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 soldier	det
5	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 again	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 again	cop
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	8 again	advmod
8	again	again	ADV	_	11 lighted	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 again	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 lighted	nsubj
11	lighted	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 pipe	nmod:poss
13	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lighted	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 summoned	cc
15	summoned	summon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 lighted	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 manikin	det
17	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 manikin	amod
18	manikin	manikin	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 summoned	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 lighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the soldier		again, alone property	tree rules
2	light	past	soldier	soldier's pipe	soon property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pipe=Product
3	summon	past	soldier not said here	the black manikin		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manikin=Recipient

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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