Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Travelling Musicians, sentence 24

In doing this, he saw afar off something bright and shining and calling to his companions said, ‘There must be a house no great way off, for I see a light.’

Who acts: ass, companions, I · What happens: do, see, shine, call, say, be · To what, where: this, house, light · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Travelling Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ass, companions, I), 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	In	in	SCONJ	_	2 doing	mark
2	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 saw	advcl
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 doing	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 doing	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 saw	nsubj
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	afar	afar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 saw	xcomp
8	off	off	ADP	_	9 something	case
9	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 afar	obl
10	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 something	amod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 shining	cc
12	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 bright	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 calling	cc
14	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 shining	conj
15	to	to	SCONJ	_	18 said	mark
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 companions	nmod:poss
17	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 calling	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 house	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 be	punct
21	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 be	expl
22	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 be	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 house	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 house	det
25	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saw	conj
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 way	det
27	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 way	amod
28	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 off	obl:unmarked
29	off	off	ADV	_	25 house	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 see	punct
31	for	for	SCONJ	_	33 see	mark
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 see	nsubj
33	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 saw	conj
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 light	det
35	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 see	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 saw	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	gerund	ass not said here	this		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality
2	see	past	ass		afar property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	shine	gerund	ass not said here			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	call	gerund	ass not said here			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert	past	ass's companions			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is a	infinitive	ass not said here	a house	off property	tree rules
7	see	present	I	a light		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus

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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