Grimms' Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel, sentence 30
‘Till the prisoner is fast, And her doom is cast, There stay!
Who acts: fairy · What happens: be, cast, doom · To what, where: doom
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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 fast | punct |
| 2 | Till | till | ADP | _ | 4 prisoner | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 prisoner | det |
| 4 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fast | obl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fast | cop |
| 6 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cast | punct |
| 8 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cast | cc |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 doom | nmod:poss |
| 10 | doom | doom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cast | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 cast | aux:pass |
| 12 | cast | cast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 fast | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stay | punct |
| 14 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 stay | expl |
| 15 | stay | stay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cast | obl |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 fast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | till the prisoner | fast property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cast | present · passive | fairy's doom | stay obl | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 3 | doom | fairy | nom doom «event transitive»: poss=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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