Grimms' Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel, sentence 10
Jorinda sat down to gaze upon the sun; Jorindel sat by her side; and both felt sad, they knew not why; but it seemed as if they were to be parted from one another for ever.
Who acts: Jorinda, Jorindel, both, doves, it · What happens: sit down, gaze, sit, feel, not know, seem · To what, where: doves
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Jorinda and Jorindel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jorinda, Jorindel, both, doves), 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 | Jorinda | Jorinda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 sat | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 gaze | mark |
| 5 | gaze | gaze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 sat | advcl |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 sun | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sun | det |
| 8 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gaze | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 sat | punct |
| 10 | Jorindel | Jorindel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 sat | nsubj |
| 11 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sat | conj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 side | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 side | nmod:poss |
| 14 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sat | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 felt | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 felt | cc |
| 17 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 felt | nsubj |
| 18 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sat | conj |
| 19 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 felt | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 knew | punct |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 knew | nsubj |
| 22 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 felt | advcl |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 knew | advmod |
| 24 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 knew | advmod |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 seemed | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 seemed | cc |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 seemed | nsubj |
| 28 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sat | parataxis |
| 29 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 35 parted | mark |
| 30 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 35 parted | mark |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 parted | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 parted | aux:pass |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 parted | mark |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 parted | aux:pass |
| 35 | parted | part | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 seemed | xcomp |
| 36 | from | from | ADP | _ | 37 one | case |
| 37 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 parted | obl |
| 38 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 37 one | fixed |
| 39 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 ever | case |
| 40 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 35 parted | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | Jorinda | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | gaze | to-infinitive | Jorinda not said here | upon the sun | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon sun=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sit | past | Jorindel | by Jorindel's side | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location | ||||
| 4 | feel | past | both | sad property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | not know | past | doves = dove | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | seem | past | it | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 7 | part a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | doves = dove | from one | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient from one=Co-Patient |
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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