Grimms' Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel, sentence 24
Jorindel could not move; he stood fixed as a stone, and could neither weep, nor speak, nor stir hand or foot.
Who acts: Jorindel, owl · What happens: not move, stand, fix, weep, stir · To what, where: speak, hand
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, owl), 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 | 4 move | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 move | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 move | advmod |
| 4 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 stood | nsubj |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 move | parataxis |
| 8 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 stood | xcomp |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 stone | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 stone | det |
| 11 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fixed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 weep | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 weep | cc |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 weep | aux |
| 15 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 16 weep | advmod |
| 16 | weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 stood | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 speak | punct |
| 18 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 19 speak | cc |
| 19 | speak | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 weep | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 stir | punct |
| 21 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 22 stir | cc |
| 22 | stir | stir | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 move | conj |
| 23 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stir | obj |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 foot | cc |
| 25 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hand | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 move | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not move | could | Jorindel | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stand | past | owl | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | fix | participle | owl not said here | as a stone | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | weep | could | owl not said here | speak | neither property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent speak=Theme | |||
| 5 | stir | infinitive | Jorindel not said here | hand or foot | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hand=Experiencer |
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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