Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 148

Then it was necessary to be careful not to let himself go between the teeth and be dismembered, but he was nevertheless forced to slip down into the stomach with the hay. "

Who acts: rascal · What happens: be, not let, go, dismember, force, slip down · To what, where: rascal, teeth, stomach

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

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 necessary	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 necessary	expl
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 necessary	cop
4	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 careful	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 careful	cop
7	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 necessary	conj
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 let	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 let	mark
10	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 careful	xcomp
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 let	obj
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 let	xcomp
13	between	between	ADP	_	15 teeth	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 teeth	det
15	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 go	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 dismembered	cc
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 dismembered	aux:pass
18	dismembered	dismember	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 let	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 forced	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 forced	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 forced	nsubj:pass
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 forced	aux:pass
23	nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	_	24 forced	advmod
24	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 necessary	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 slip	mark
26	slip	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 forced	xcomp
27	down	down	ADP	_	26 slip	compound:prt
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 stomach	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 stomach	det
30	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 slip	obl
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 hay	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 hay	det
33	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 slip	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 necessary	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 necessary	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past				then	necessary property	tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive					careful property	tree rules
3	not let	to-infinitive		rascal				tree rules
4	go	infinitive	rascal not said here		the teeth			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between tooth=Location
5	dismember	infinitive · passive						tree rules
6	force	past · passive		rascal			nevertheless property	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
7	slip down	to-infinitive	rascal not said here		the stomach		with the hay	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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.

Text: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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