The Green Fairy Book, Jorinde and Joringel, sentence 6
Now, there was once a maiden called Jorinde, who was more beautiful than other maidens.
Who acts: Jorinde · What happens: be, call · To what, where: maiden · 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 (Jorinde), 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 | 4 was | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 was | expl |
| 4 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 was | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 maiden | det |
| 7 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 once | nsubj |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 maiden | acl |
| 9 | Jorinde | Jorinde | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 called | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 beautiful | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 beautiful | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 beautiful | cop |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 beautiful | advmod |
| 14 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Jorinde | amod |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 maidens | case |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 maidens | amod |
| 17 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 beautiful | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | there | now | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | call | participle | a maiden not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Jorinde | than other maidens; beautiful 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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