Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 72

Next day the soldier was tried, and though he had done nothing wicked, the judge condemned him to death.

Who acts: soldier, judge · What happens: try, do, condemn · To what, where: soldier, nothing

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, judge), 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 day	amod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tried	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 soldier	det
4	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tried	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tried	aux:pass
6	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 done	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 done	cc
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	12 done	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 done	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 done	aux
12	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 tried	conj
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 done	obj
14	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 done	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 condemned	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 judge	det
17	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 condemned	nsubj
18	condemned	condemn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tried	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 condemned	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 death	case
21	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 condemned	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	try	past · passive		the soldier	day		vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	do	past · perfect	soldier	nothing		wicked property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
3	condemn	past	the judge	soldier		to death	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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