The Green Fairy Book, Jorinde and Joringel, sentence 45
Now she could no longer work enchantments, and there stood Jorinde before him, with her arms round his neck, and more beautiful than ever.
Who acts: enchantress · What happens: work, stand · To what, where: enchantments, Jorinde
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 (enchantress), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 work | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 work | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 work | aux |
| 4 | no | no | ADV | _ | 5 longer | advmod |
| 5 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 work | advmod |
| 6 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | enchantments | enchantment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 work | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stood | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 stood | cc |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 stood | advmod |
| 11 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 work | parataxis |
| 12 | Jorinde | Jorinde | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 stood | obj |
| 13 | before | before | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stood | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 arms | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 arms | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 arms | nmod:poss |
| 18 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stood | obl |
| 19 | round | round | ADP | _ | 21 neck | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 neck | nmod:poss |
| 21 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 arms | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 beautiful | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 beautiful | cc |
| 24 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 25 beautiful | advmod |
| 25 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 stood | conj |
| 26 | than | than | ADP | _ | 27 ever | case |
| 27 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 25 beautiful | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 work | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | could | enchantress | enchantments | now | long property | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent enchantment=Material | ||
| 2 | stand | past | Jorinde | there | before Joringel | with enchantress's arms round Joringel's neck | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent jorinde=Theme before he=Destination |
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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