Grimms' Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel, sentence 38

Many a time did he walk round and round as near to the hated castle as he dared go, but all in vain; he heard or saw nothing of Jorinda.

Who acts: spell · What happens: walk, hate, dare, go, hear, see · To what, where: nothing

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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 time	amod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walk	obl:unmarked
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 walk	aux
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 walk	nsubj
6	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	round	round	ADV	_	6 walk	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 round	cc
9	round	round	ADV	_	7 round	conj
10	as	as	ADP	_	11 near	case
11	near	near	ADV	_	15 castle	obl
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 castle	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 castle	det
14	hated	hate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 castle	amod
15	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walk	parataxis
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 dared	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 dared	nsubj
18	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 walk	advcl
19	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 dared	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 vain	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 vain	cc
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 vain	nsubj
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 vain	case
24	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 walk	parataxis
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 heard	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 heard	nsubj
27	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 walk	parataxis
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 saw	cc
29	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 heard	conj
30	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	29 saw	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 Jorinda	case
32	Jorinda	Jorinda	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 nothing	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 walk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past · do-support	spell		time	round property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hate	participle					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer
3	dare	past	spell				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go	infinitive	spell not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	hear	past	spell				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
6	see	past	spell not said here	nothing			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus

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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