The Green Fairy Book, Jorinde and Joringel, sentence 16

‘My little bird with throat so red Sings sorrow, sorrow, sorrow; He sings to the little dove that’s dead, Sings sorrow, sor--jug, jug, jug.’

Who acts: red Sings, Joringel, Sings · What happens: sorrow, sing · To what, where: little bird, little dove, sor

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jorinde and Joringel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (red Sings, Joringel, Sings), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 bird	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 bird	nmod:poss
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bird	amod
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sorrow	obl
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 throat	case
6	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bird	nmod
7	so	so	SCONJ	_	10 sorrow	mark
8	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Sings	amod
9	Sings	sing	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sorrow	nsubj
10	sorrow	sorrow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sorrow	punct
12	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sorrow	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sorrow	punct
14	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sorrow	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 sings	punct
16	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sings	nsubj
17	sings	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 sorrow	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 dove	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 dove	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 dove	amod
21	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sings	obl
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 ’s	nsubj
23	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 dove	acl:relcl
24	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 ’s	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sorrow	punct
26	Sings	sing	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 sorrow	nsubj
27	sorrow	sorrow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 sings	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sor	punct
29	sor	sor	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sorrow	obj
30	--	--	PUNCT	_	31 jug	punct
31	jug	jug	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sor	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 jug	punct
33	jug	jug	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sor	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 jug	punct
35	jug	jug	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sor	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 sorrow	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 sorrow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	sorrow	present	red Sings	My little bird with throat		tree rules
2	sing speech: express	present	Joringel		the little dove	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to dove=Recipient
3	sorrow	present	Sings	sor and jug and jug and jug		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: «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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