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title: Joringel could not stir; he stood there like a stone; he could not w… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Joringel could not stir; he stood there like a stone; he could not weep, or speak, or move hand or foot. Who acts: Joringel. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jorinde and Joringel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Jorinde and Joringel, sentence 20

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Joringel could not stir; he stood there like a stone; he could not weep, or speak, or move hand or foot.

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**Who acts:** Joringel · **What happens:** not stir, stand, not weep, speak, move · **To what, where:** hand · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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.

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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:pg7277:41:20
# text = Joringel could not stir; he stood there like a stone; he could not weep, or speak, or move hand or foot.
1	Joringel	Joringel	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	stir	stir	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	conj	_	_
8	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	weep	weep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	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** **stir** | could | Joringel |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **stand** | past | Joringel |  |  | there |  | like a stone | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **weep** | could | Joringel |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive | Joringel *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **move** | infinitive | Joringel *not said here* | hand or foot |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |

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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:** «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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