Grimms' Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel, sentence 26
She mumbled something to herself, seized the nightingale, and went away with it in her hand.
Who acts: Jorindel · What happens: mumble, seize, go away · To what, where: something, Jorindel, nightingale, 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), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 mumbled | nsubj |
| 2 | mumbled | mumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 mumbled | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 herself | case |
| 5 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 mumbled | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 seized | punct |
| 7 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 mumbled | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 nightingale | det |
| 9 | nightingale | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seized | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 mumbled | conj |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 went | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 hand | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hand | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 mumbled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mumble speech: other | past | Jorindel | something | Jorindel | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent something=Topic to herself=Recipient | |||
| 2 | seize | past | Jorindel not said here | the nightingale | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nightingale=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go away | past | Jorindel not said here | Jorindel's hand | with nightingale; away property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with it=Beneficiary |
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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