Grimms' Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel, sentence 19
Jorindel turned to see the reason, and beheld his Jorinda changed into a nightingale, so that her song ended with a mournful _jug, jug_.
Who acts: Jorindel, Jorinda, song · What happens: turn, see, behold, change, end, sing · To what, where: reason, nightingale
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 (Jorindel, Jorinda, song), 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 | Jorindel | Jorindel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 see | mark |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 turned | xcomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 reason | det |
| 6 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 see | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 beheld | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 beheld | cc |
| 9 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 Jorinda | nmod:poss |
| 11 | Jorinda | Jorinda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 changed | nsubj |
| 12 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 beheld | ccomp |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 nightingale | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 nightingale | det |
| 15 | nightingale | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 changed | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ended | punct |
| 17 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 21 ended | mark |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 so | fixed |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 song | nmod:poss |
| 20 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ended | nsubj |
| 21 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 beheld | parataxis |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 jug | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 jug | det |
| 24 | mournful | mournful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 jug | amod |
| 25 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 jug | compound |
| 26 | jug | jug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ended | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 jug | punct |
| 28 | jug | jug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 jug | conj |
| 29 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 21 ended | punct |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | Jorindel | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | Jorindel not said here | the reason | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reason=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | behold | past | Jorindel not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | change | past | song's Jorinda | into a nightingale result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into nightingale=Result | ||||
| 5 | end | past | Jorindel's song | with a mournful _ jug and jug | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with jug=Subeventuality | ||||
| 6 | sing | Jorindel | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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