Grimms' Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel, sentence 35
He prayed, he wept, he sorrowed, but all in vain.
Who acts: spell · What happens: pray, weep, sorrow
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), 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 | 2 prayed | nsubj |
| 2 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wept | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wept | nsubj |
| 5 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 prayed | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sorrowed | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sorrowed | nsubj |
| 8 | sorrowed | sorrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 prayed | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 all | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 all | cc |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 sorrowed | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 vain | case |
| 13 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 all | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 prayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | past | spell | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | weep | past | spell | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | sorrow | past | spell | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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