The Green Fairy Book, Jorinde and Joringel, sentence 20
Joringel could not stir; he stood there like a stone; he could not weep, or speak, or move hand or foot.
Who acts: Joringel · What happens: not stir, stand, not weep, speak, move · To what, where: hand · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Joringel), 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 | Joringel | Joringel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 stir | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 stir | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 stir | advmod |
| 4 | stir | stir | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 stood | nsubj |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stir | conj |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 stood | advmod |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 stone | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 stone | det |
| 11 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 weep | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 weep | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 weep | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 weep | advmod |
| 16 | weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 stir | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 speak | punct |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 speak | cc |
| 19 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 weep | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 move | punct |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 move | cc |
| 22 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 weep | conj |
| 23 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 move | obj |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 foot | cc |
| 25 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hand | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stir | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stir | could | Joringel | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | stand | past | Joringel | there | like a stone | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | not weep | could | Joringel | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | infinitive | Joringel not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | move | infinitive | Joringel not said here | hand or foot | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
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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