Grimms' Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel, sentence 15
‘The ring-dove sang from the willow spray, Well-a-day!
Who acts: ring dove · What happens: sing · To what, where: willow spray
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 (ring dove), 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 | _ | 6 sang | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dove | det |
| 3 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dove | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 ring | punct |
| 5 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sang | nsubj |
| 6 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 spray | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 spray | det |
| 9 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spray | compound |
| 10 | spray | spray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sang | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 day | punct |
| 12 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 16 day | discourse |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 day | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 day | det |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 a | punct |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sang | obl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | the ring dove | the willow spray | day | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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