The Green Fairy Book, Jorinde and Joringel, sentence 30
He often went round the castle while he was there, but never too close.
Who acts: Joringel · What happens: go, be · To what, where: close, castle
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 2 | often | often | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | round | round | ADP | _ | 6 castle | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 castle | det |
| 6 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 10 there | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 there | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 there | cop |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 close | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 close | cc |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 close | advmod |
| 14 | too | too | ADV | _ | 15 close | advmod |
| 15 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 went | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Joringel | close | the castle | often property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round castle=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | is | past | Joringel | there 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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