Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 78
‘Strike down to earth that false judge there, and his constable, and spare not the king who has treated me so ill.’
What happens: not spare, treat · To what, where: king
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: 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 down | punct |
| 2 | Strike | strike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 down | compound |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 earth | case |
| 5 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 down | obl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 there | mark |
| 7 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 judge | amod |
| 8 | judge | judge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 there | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 earth | acl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 constable | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 constable | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 constable | nmod:poss |
| 13 | constable | constable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 down | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 spare | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 spare | cc |
| 16 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 down | conj |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 spare | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 king | det |
| 19 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 spare | obj |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 treated | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 treated | aux |
| 22 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 king | acl:relcl |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 treated | obj |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 ill | advmod |
| 25 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 treated | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 down | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 down | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not spare | infinitive | the king | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent king=Asset | |||||
| 2 | treat | present · perfect · passive | the king | ill property | tree rules |
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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