Grimms' Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel, sentence 34

Then he fell on his knees before the fairy, and prayed her to give him back his dear Jorinda: but she laughed at him, and said he should never see her again; then she went her way.

Who acts: spell, fairy · What happens: fall, pray, give back, laugh, say, not see · To what, where: knees, fairy, dear Jorinda, way · 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 (spell, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 fell	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fell	nsubj
3	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 knees	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 knees	nmod:poss
6	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fell	obl
7	before	before	ADP	_	9 fairy	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fairy	det
9	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fell	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 prayed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 prayed	cc
12	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fell	conj
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 prayed	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 give	mark
15	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 prayed	xcomp
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 give	iobj
17	back	back	ADP	_	15 give	compound:prt
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 Jorinda	nmod:poss
19	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Jorinda	amod
20	Jorinda	Jorinda	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 give	iobj
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 laughed	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 laughed	cc
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 laughed	nsubj
24	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fell	conj
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 laughed	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 said	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 said	cc
29	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 laughed	conj
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 see	nsubj
31	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 see	aux
32	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	33 see	advmod
33	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 said	ccomp
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 see	obj
35	again	again	ADV	_	33 see	advmod
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 went	punct
37	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 went	advmod
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 went	nsubj
39	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fell	conj
40	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 way	nmod:poss
41	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 went	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	spell			spell's knees	before the fairy; then		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location
2	pray	past	spell not said here	fairy					tree rules
3	give back	to-infinitive	spell not said here		spell's dear Jorinda				vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient jorinda=Theme
4	laugh	past	fairy					at spell	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert	past	fairy not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	not see	should	spell	fairy			again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
7	go	past	fairy	fairy's way			then		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme

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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