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title: She and a youth named Joringel, who was just as good-looking as she… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She and a youth named Joringel, who was just as good-looking as she was, were betrothed to one another. 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 7

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She and a youth named Joringel, who was just as good-looking as she was, were betrothed to one another.

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**Who acts:** Joringel · **What happens:** name, look, betroth · **To what, where:** maiden, one

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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:pg7277:41:7
# text = She and a youth named Joringel, who was just as good-looking as she was, were betrothed to one another.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	Joringel	Joringel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
10	just	just	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
11	as	as	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	betrothed	betroth	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	obl	_	_
23	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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