Grimms' Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel, sentence 39
At last he dreamt one night that he found a beautiful purple flower, and that in the middle of it lay a costly pearl; and he dreamt that he plucked the flower, and went with it in his hand into the castle, and that everything he touched with it was disenchanted, and that there he found his Jorinda again.
Who acts: spell, that · What happens: dreamt, find, lie, pluck, go, touch · To what, where: last, beautiful purple flower, costly pearl, flower, hand, everything
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, that), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dreamt | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dreamt | nsubj |
| 4 | dreamt | dreamt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 night | nummod |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dreamt | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 found | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 found | nsubj |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dreamt | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 flower | det |
| 11 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 flower | amod |
| 12 | purple | purple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 flower | amod |
| 13 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 found | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 lay | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 lay | cc |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 lay | nsubj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 middle | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 middle | det |
| 19 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 that | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 middle | nmod |
| 22 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dreamt | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 pearl | det |
| 24 | costly | costly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 pearl | amod |
| 25 | pearl | pearl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lay | obj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 dreamt | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 dreamt | cc |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 dreamt | nsubj |
| 29 | dreamt | dreamt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dreamt | parataxis |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 plucked | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 plucked | nsubj |
| 32 | plucked | pluck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 dreamt | advcl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 flower | det |
| 34 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 plucked | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 went | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 went | cc |
| 37 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 dreamt | conj |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 it | case |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 went | obl |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 hand | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 hand | nmod:poss |
| 42 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 went | obl |
| 43 | into | into | ADP | _ | 45 castle | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 castle | det |
| 45 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 went | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 disenchanted | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 disenchanted | cc |
| 48 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 49 everything | det |
| 49 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 55 disenchanted | nsubj:pass |
| 50 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 touched | nsubj |
| 51 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 everything | acl:relcl |
| 52 | with | with | ADP | _ | 53 it | case |
| 53 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 touched | obl |
| 54 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 55 disenchanted | aux:pass |
| 55 | disenchanted | disenchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 dreamt | conj |
| 56 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 61 found | punct |
| 57 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 61 found | cc |
| 58 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 59 there | mark |
| 59 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 61 found | advcl |
| 60 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 61 found | nsubj |
| 61 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dreamt | conj |
| 62 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 63 Jorinda | nmod:poss |
| 63 | Jorinda | Jorinda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 61 found | obj |
| 64 | again | again | ADV | _ | 61 found | advmod |
| 65 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dreamt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dreamt | past | spell | last | night | tree rules | |||
| 2 | find | past | spell | a beautiful purple flower | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Topic | ||||
| 3 | lie | past | that | a costly pearl | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pearl=Theme | ||||
| 4 | dreamt | past | spell | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | pluck | past | spell | the flower | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient | ||||
| 6 | go | past | spell not said here | spell's hand | with flower; into the castle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into castle=Initial_Location | |||
| 7 | touch | past | spell | with flower | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | disenchant | past · passive | everything | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | find | past | spell | spell's Jorinda | again | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jorinda=Topic |
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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