Grimms' Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel, sentence 27
Poor Jorindel saw the nightingale was gone--but what could he do?
Who acts: Poor Jorindel, nightingale, owl · What happens: see, be, do · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Poor Jorindel, nightingale, 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 | Poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Jorindel | amod |
| 2 | Jorindel | Jorindel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 nightingale | det |
| 5 | nightingale | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gone | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gone | cop |
| 7 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 saw | ccomp |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 do | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 do | cc |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 do | obj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 do | aux |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 do | nsubj |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 saw | conj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Poor Jorindel | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the nightingale | gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | could | owl | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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