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title: He looked around at the birds, but alas! there were many, many night… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He looked around at the birds, but alas! there were many, many nightingales, and how then should he find out which was his Jorinda? Who acts: spell, alas. 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 47

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He looked around at the birds, but alas! there were many, many nightingales, and how then should he find out which was his Jorinda?

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**Who acts:** spell, alas · **What happens:** look around, be, find out · **To what, where:** many many nightingales, Jorinda · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (spell, alas), 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:pg2591:4:47
# text = He looked around at the birds, but alas! there were many, many nightingales, and how then should he find out which was his Jorinda?
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	around	around	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
9	alas	ala	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
13	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	nightingales	nightingale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
20	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
21	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	Jorinda	Jorinda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look around** | past | spell |  |  |  |  | at the birds; around *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at bird=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | alas | many many nightingales |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **find out** | should | spell |  |  |  | then |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | spell's Jorinda |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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