Grimms' Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel, sentence 6
Now there was once a maiden whose name was Jorinda.
Who acts: maiden name, Jorinda · What happens: be, name · To what, where: Jorinda
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 (maiden name, Jorinda), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 was | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 Jorinda | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 name | det |
| 6 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 name | amod |
| 7 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 8 name | nmod:poss |
| 8 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Jorinda | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 Jorinda | cop |
| 10 | Jorinda | Jorinda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 was | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | there | now | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Jorinda's maiden name | Jorinda | once property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | name | Jorinda | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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