Grimms' Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel, sentence 7

She was prettier than all the pretty girls that ever were seen before, and a shepherd lad, whose name was Jorindel, was very fond of her, and they were soon to be married.

Who acts: seven hundred, name, shepherd lad, Jorindel · What happens: be, see, marry, name · To what, where: pretty girls, Jorindel, girls

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 (seven hundred, name, shepherd lad, Jorindel), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 prettier	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 prettier	cop
3	prettier	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	8 girls	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 girls	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 girls	det
7	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 girls	amod
8	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 prettier	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 seen	nsubj
10	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 seen	advmod
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 seen	aux:pass
12	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 girls	acl:relcl
13	before	before	ADV	_	12 seen	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fond	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 fond	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 lad	det
17	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lad	compound
18	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fond	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Jorindel	punct
20	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	21 name	nmod:poss
21	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Jorindel	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 Jorindel	cop
23	Jorindel	Jorindel	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 lad	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lad	punct
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 fond	cop
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 fond	advmod
27	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 prettier	parataxis
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 her	case
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 fond	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 married	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 married	cc
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 married	nsubj:pass
33	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 married	aux:pass
34	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	37 married	advmod
35	to	to	PART	_	37 married	mark
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 married	aux:pass
37	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 fond	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 prettier	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	seven hundred = hundred			than all pretty girls; pretty property	tree rules
2	see	past · passive		all pretty girls	ever	before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
3	is a	past	Jorindel's name	Jorindel			tree rules
4	is	past	a shepherd lad			of seven hundred = hundred; fond property	tree rules
5	marry	past · passive		girls = girl		soon property	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	name		Jorindel				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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