The Green Fairy Book, Jorinde and Joringel, sentence 46
Then he turned all the other birds again into maidens, and he went home with his Jorinde, and they lived a long and happy life.
Who acts: Joringel, birds · What happens: turn, go, live · To what, where: other birds, maidens, long life
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, birds), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 turned | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 birds | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 birds | det |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 birds | amod |
| 7 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 turned | obj |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 birds | advmod |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 maidens | case |
| 10 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 turned | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 15 | home | home | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 Jorinde | case |
| 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 went | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 lived | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 lived | cc |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 lived | nsubj |
| 22 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 life | det |
| 24 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 life | amod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 happy | cc |
| 26 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 long | conj |
| 27 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lived | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | Joringel | all other birds | maidens | then | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent bird=Theme into maiden=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | go | past | Joringel | with Joringel's Jorinde; home property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with jorinde=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | live | past | birds = bird | a long life | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location |
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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