Grimms' Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel, sentence 17
He mourn’d for the fate of his darling mate, Well-a-day!’
Who acts: Jorinda · What happens: mourn, fate · To what, where: ’d, darling mate
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 mourn | nsubj |
| 2 | mourn | mourn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 3 | ’d | 'd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mourn | obj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 fate | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fate | det |
| 6 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mourn | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 mate | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mate | nmod:poss |
| 9 | darling | darling | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 mate | amod |
| 10 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fate | nmod |
| 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 | 2 mourn | obl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 mourn | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 mourn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mourn | infinitive | Jorinda | ’d | day | for the fate of Jorinda's darling mate | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer 'd=Stimulus for fate=Attribute | ||
| 2 | fate | Jorinda's darling mate | nom fate «event transitive»: of=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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