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title: He mourn’d for the fate of his darling mate, Well-a-day!’ — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He mourn’d for the fate of his darling mate, Well-a-day!’ Who acts: Jorinda. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Jorinda and Jorindel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel, sentence 17

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He mourn’d for the fate of his darling mate, Well-a-day!’

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**Who acts:** Jorinda · **What happens:** mourn, fate · **To what, where:** ’d, darling mate

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Jorinda and Jorindel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jorinda), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2591:4:17
# text = He mourn’d for the fate of his darling mate, Well-a-day!’
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	mourn	mourn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’d	'd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	darling	darling	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mourn** | infinitive | Jorinda | ’d |  |  | day | for the fate of Jorinda's darling mate | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer 'd=Stimulus for fate=Attribute |
| 2 | **fate** |  |  | Jorinda's darling mate |  |  |  |  | nom fate «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**Text:** «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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