Grimms' Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel, sentence 8

One day they went to walk in the wood, that they might be alone; and Jorindel said, ‘We must take care that we don’t go too near to the fairy’s castle.’

Who acts: girls, Jorindel, We · What happens: go, walk, be, say, take, not go · To what, where: wood, care, castle · 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 (girls, Jorindel, We), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl:unmarked
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 walk	mark
6	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 went	xcomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 wood	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wood	det
9	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walk	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 alone	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 alone	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 alone	nsubj
13	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 alone	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 alone	cop
15	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 walk	advcl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
18	Jorindel	Jorindel	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 take	punct
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 take	punct
22	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 take	nsubj
23	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 take	aux
24	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 said	ccomp
25	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 take	obj
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 go	mark
27	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 go	nsubj
28	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 go	aux
29	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 go	advmod
30	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 take	advcl
31	too	too	ADV	_	32 near	advmod
32	near	near	ADV	_	30 go	advmod
33	to	to	ADP	_	37 castle	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 fairy	det
35	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 castle	nmod:poss
36	’s	's	PART	_	35 fairy	case
37	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 go	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 take	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	24 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	girls = girl			day		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	walk	to-infinitive	girls = girl not said here		the wood			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Trajectory
3	is	might	girls = girl				alone property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	Jorindel					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	take	must	We	care				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
6	not go	present · do-support	we		the fairy's castle		near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial_Location

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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