The Green Fairy Book, Jorinde and Joringel, sentence 7
She and a youth named Joringel, who was just as good-looking as she was, were betrothed to one another.
Who acts: Joringel · What happens: name, look, betroth · To what, where: maiden, one
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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 named | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 youth | cc |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 youth | det |
| 4 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 She | conj |
| 5 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | Joringel | Joringel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 named | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 looking | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 looking | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 looking | aux |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 looking | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 good | advmod |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 looking | amod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 good | punct |
| 14 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 Joringel | conj |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 betrothed | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 betrothed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 betrothed | aux |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 betrothed | punct |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 betrothed | aux:pass |
| 20 | betrothed | betroth | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 looking | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 one | case |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 betrothed | obl |
| 23 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 one | fixed |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 named | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | participle · passive | maiden | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | look | past · progressive | Joringel | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | betroth | past · passive | maiden | one | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to one=Recipient |
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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