Grimms' Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel, sentence 46
When she saw Jorindel she was very angry, and screamed with rage; but she could not come within two yards of him, for the flower he held in his hand was his safeguard.
Who acts: fairy, spell · What happens: see, be, scream, not come, hold · To what, where: Jorindel, flower, safeguard, hand · 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 (fairy, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Jorindel | Jorindel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 angry | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 angry | cop |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 angry | advmod |
| 8 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 saw | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 screamed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 screamed | cc |
| 11 | screamed | scream | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 saw | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 rage | case |
| 13 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 screamed | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 come | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 come | cc |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 come | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 come | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 come | advmod |
| 19 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 saw | conj |
| 20 | within | within | ADP | _ | 22 yards | case |
| 21 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 yards | nummod |
| 22 | yards | yard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 come | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 yards | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 flower | punct |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 flower | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 flower | det |
| 28 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 come | obl |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 held | nsubj |
| 30 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 flower | acl:relcl |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 hand | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 hand | nmod:poss |
| 33 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 safeguard | obl |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 safeguard | cop |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 safeguard | nmod:poss |
| 36 | safeguard | safeguard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 held | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | fairy | Jorindel | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jorindel=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | fairy | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | scream speech: express | participle | fairy not said here | with rage | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with rage=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not come | could | fairy | within two yards of spell; for the flower | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | hold | past | spell | the flower not said here | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is a | past | spell's safeguard | spell's hand | tree rules |
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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