Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 77
Then the soldier pulled out his pipe and lighted it at the blue light, and as soon as a few wreaths of smoke had ascended, the manikin was there with a small cudgel in his hand, and said: ‘What does my lord command?’
Who acts: manikin, my · What happens: pull out, light, ascend, be, say, do · To what, where: soldier, pipe, blue light, few wreaths, lord command · 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 (manikin, my), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 pulled | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 soldier | det |
| 3 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pulled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 said | ccomp |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 pulled | compound:prt |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 pipe | nmod:poss |
| 7 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pulled | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 lighted | cc |
| 9 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 pulled | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 lighted | obj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 light | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 light | det |
| 13 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 light | amod |
| 14 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lighted | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 ascended | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 ascended | cc |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 18 soon | advmod |
| 18 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 ascended | advmod |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 ascended | mark |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 wreaths | det |
| 21 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 wreaths | amod |
| 22 | wreaths | wreath | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 ascended | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 smoke | case |
| 24 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wreaths | nmod |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 ascended | aux |
| 26 | ascended | ascend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 pulled | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 there | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 manikin | det |
| 29 | manikin | manikin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 there | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 there | cop |
| 31 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 ascended | advmod |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 cudgel | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 cudgel | det |
| 34 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 cudgel | amod |
| 35 | cudgel | cudgel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 there | obl |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 hand | case |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 hand | nmod:poss |
| 38 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 cudgel | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 said | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 said | cc |
| 41 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 42 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 45 does | punct |
| 43 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 45 does | punct |
| 44 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 45 does | nsubj |
| 45 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 said | ccomp |
| 46 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 command | nmod:poss |
| 47 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 command | compound |
| 48 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 does | obj |
| 49 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 45 does | punct |
| 50 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 45 does | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull out | participle · passive | the soldier | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | light | participle | pipe | the blue light | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product | ||||
| 3 | ascend | past · perfect · passive | a few wreaths of smoke | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the manikin | with a small cudgel in soldier's hand; there property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 6 | do | present | my lord command | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | command | my | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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