The Green Fairy Book, Jorinde and Joringel, sentence 26

He fell on his knees before the old woman and implored her to give him back his Jorinde, but she said he should never have her again, and then went away.

Who acts: Joringel, woman · What happens: fall, implore, give back, say, not have, go away · To what, where: knees, woman, Jorinde, Joringel · 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, woman), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 knees	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 knees	nmod:poss
5	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fell	obl
6	before	before	ADP	_	9 woman	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 woman	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fell	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 implored	cc
11	implored	implore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fell	conj
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 implored	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 give	mark
14	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 implored	xcomp
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 give	iobj
16	back	back	ADP	_	14 give	compound:prt
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 Jorinde	nmod:poss
18	Jorinde	Jorinde	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 give	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 said	nsubj
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fell	conj
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 have	nsubj
24	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 have	aux
25	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	26 have	advmod
26	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 said	ccomp
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 have	obj
28	again	again	ADV	_	26 have	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 went	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 went	cc
31	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 went	advmod
32	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fell	conj
33	away	away	ADV	_	32 went	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	Joringel			Joringel's knees	before the old woman		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location
2	implore	past	Joringel not said here	woman					vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	give back	to-infinitive	Joringel not said here	Joringel's Jorinde	Joringel				vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient jorinde=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	woman						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not have	should	Joringel	woman			again		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
6	go away	past	Joringel not said here				then	away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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