Grimms' Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel, sentence 28
He could not speak, he could not move from the spot where he stood.
Who acts: owl · What happens: not speak, not move, stand · To what, where: spot · 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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 speak | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 speak | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 speak | advmod |
| 4 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 move | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 move | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 move | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 move | advmod |
| 9 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 speak | conj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 spot | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 spot | det |
| 12 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 move | obl |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 stood | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 stood | nsubj |
| 15 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 spot | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 speak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not speak speech: other | could | owl | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not move | could | owl | the spot | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from spot=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | owl | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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