Grimms' Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel, sentence 47

He looked around at the birds, but alas! there were many, many nightingales, and how then should he find out which was his Jorinda?

Who acts: spell, alas · What happens: look around, be, find out · To what, where: many many nightingales, Jorinda · 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, alas), 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 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	around	around	ADV	_	2 looked	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 birds	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 birds	det
6	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 looked	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 nightingales	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 nightingales	cc
9	alas	ala	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 nightingales	nsubj
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 were	punct
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 were	expl
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 nightingales	cop
13	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 nightingales	amod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 nightingales	punct
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 nightingales	amod
16	nightingales	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 looked	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 find	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 find	cc
19	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 then	advmod
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 find	advmod
21	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 find	aux
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 find	nsubj
23	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 looked	conj
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 find	compound:prt
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 Jorinda	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 Jorinda	cop
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 Jorinda	nmod:poss
28	Jorinda	Jorinda	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 find	ccomp
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	look around	past	spell			at the birds; around property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at bird=Theme
2	is a	past	alas	many many nightingales			tree rules
3	find out	should	spell		then		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past		spell's Jorinda			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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