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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