Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 8

‘What do you wish?’ said the soldier.

Who acts: you · What happens: wish, say · To what, where: soldier · 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 (you), 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	_	5 wish	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 wish	obj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wish	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 wish	nsubj
5	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 wish	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 wish	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 soldier	det
10	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wish	present · do-support	you						vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past		the soldier					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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