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title: The poor soldier fell without injury on the moist ground, and the bl… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The poor soldier fell without injury on the moist ground, and the blue light went on burning, but of what use was that to him? Who acts: poor soldier, blue light. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Blue Light, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 20

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The poor soldier fell without injury on the moist ground, and the blue light went on burning, but of what use was that to him?

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**Who acts:** poor soldier, blue light · **What happens:** fall, go, burn, be · **To what, where:** moist ground, that

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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 (poor soldier, blue light), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2591:46:20
# text = The poor soldier fell without injury on the moist ground, and the blue light went on burning, but of what use was that to him?
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	without	without	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	injury	injury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	moist	moist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	advcl	_	_
23	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	nsubj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | the poor soldier |  |  | the moist ground |  | without injury | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on ground=Location |
| 2 | **go** | past | the blue light |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **burn** | gerund | the blue light *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | that |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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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