Grimms' Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel, sentence 49
He ran or flew after her, touched the cage with the flower, and Jorinda stood before him, and threw her arms round his neck looking as beautiful as ever, as beautiful as when they walked together in the wood.
Who acts: spell, Jorinda, arms · What happens: run, fly, touch, stand, throw, look · To what, where: cage, arms, wood
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, Jorinda, arms), 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 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 flew | cc |
| 4 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 flew | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 touched | punct |
| 8 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cage | det |
| 10 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 touched | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 flower | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 flower | det |
| 13 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 touched | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stood | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 stood | cc |
| 16 | Jorinda | Jorinda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 stood | nsubj |
| 17 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 18 | before | before | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 stood | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 threw | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 threw | cc |
| 22 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | parataxis |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 arms | nmod:poss |
| 24 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 threw | obj |
| 25 | round | round | ADP | _ | 27 neck | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 neck | nmod:poss |
| 27 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 threw | obl |
| 28 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 threw | advcl |
| 29 | as | as | ADV | _ | 30 beautiful | advmod |
| 30 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 looking | xcomp |
| 31 | as | as | ADP | _ | 32 ever | case |
| 32 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 30 beautiful | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 beautiful | punct |
| 34 | as | as | ADP | _ | 35 beautiful | case |
| 35 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 threw | conj |
| 36 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 39 walked | mark |
| 37 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 39 walked | advmod |
| 38 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 walked | nsubj |
| 39 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 beautiful | advcl |
| 40 | together | together | ADV | _ | 39 walked | advmod |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 wood | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 wood | det |
| 43 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 walked | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | spell | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fly | past | spell not said here | after fairy | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | touch | past | spell not said here | the cage | with the flower | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent cage=Theme with flower=Instrument | |||
| 4 | stand | past | Jorinda | before spell | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location | ||||
| 5 | throw | past | fairy's arms | round spell's neck | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | ||||
| 6 | look | gerund | beautiful property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | walk | past | arms = arm | the wood | together property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Trajectory |
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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