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title: Jorindel could not move; he stood fixed as a stone, and could neithe… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Jorindel could not move; he stood fixed as a stone, and could neither weep, nor speak, nor stir hand or foot. Who acts: Jorindel, owl. 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 24

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Jorindel could not move; he stood fixed as a stone, and could neither weep, nor speak, nor stir hand or foot.

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**Who acts:** Jorindel, owl · **What happens:** not move, stand, fix, weep, stir · **To what, where:** speak, hand

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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 (Jorindel, owl), 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:pg2591:4:24
# text = Jorindel could not move; he stood fixed as a stone, and could neither weep, nor speak, nor stir hand or foot.
1	Jorindel	Jorindel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	xcomp	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	weep	weep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	19	cc	_	_
19	speak	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	22	cc	_	_
22	stir	stir	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
23	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **move** | could | Jorindel |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past | owl |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **fix** | participle | owl *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as a stone | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **weep** | could | owl *not said here* | speak |  |  |  | neither *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent speak=Theme |
| 5 | **stir** | infinitive | Jorindel *not said here* | hand or foot |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hand=Experiencer |

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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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