Grimms' Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel, sentence 2
Now this fairy could take any shape she pleased.
Who acts: fairy · What happens: take · To what, where: shape
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 (fairy), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 take | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 fairy | det |
| 3 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 take | aux |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 shape | det |
| 7 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obj |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 pleased | nsubj |
| 9 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 shape | ccomp |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | could | this fairy | any shape | now | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=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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