The Green Fairy Book, Jorinde and Joringel, sentence 23

Joringel could say nothing; he could not move from the spot, and the nightingale was gone.

Who acts: Joringel, nightingale · What happens: say, not move, be · To what, where: nothing, spot · 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, nightingale), 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	3 say	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 say	aux
3	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 say	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 move	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 move	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 move	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 move	advmod
9	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 say	parataxis
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 spot	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 spot	det
12	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 move	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 gone	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 gone	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 nightingale	det
16	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 gone	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 gone	cop
18	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 move	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	could	Joringel	nothing			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
2	not move	could	Joringel		the spot		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from spot=Trajectory
3	is	past	the nightingale			gone property	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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