Grimms' Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel, sentence 3

All the day long she flew about in the form of an owl, or crept about the country like a cat; but at night she always became an old woman again.

Who acts: fairy · What happens: fly, creep, become, form · To what, where: form, old woman, owl

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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 day	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 long	obl:unmarked
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 flew	advmod
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 flew	nsubj
6	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	about	about	ADV	_	6 flew	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 form	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 form	det
10	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flew	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 owl	case
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 owl	det
13	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 form	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 crept	punct
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 crept	cc
16	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 flew	conj
17	about	about	ADP	_	19 country	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 country	det
19	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 crept	obl
20	like	like	ADP	_	22 cat	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 cat	det
22	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 crept	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 became	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 became	cc
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 night	case
26	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 became	obl
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 became	nsubj
28	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	29 became	advmod
29	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 flew	conj
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 woman	det
31	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 woman	amod
32	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 became	xcomp
33	again	again	ADV	_	29 became	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	fairy		the form of a owl		about, long property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in form=Location
2	creep	past	fairy not said here				about the country; like a cat	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about country=Trajectory
3	become	past	fairy	a old woman		again; night	always property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	form			a owl				nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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