Grimm's Fairy Stories, Briar Rose, sentence 23
This they could never do; for the thorns and bushes laid hold of them as it were with hands, and there they stuck fast and died miserably.
Who acts: This, hold, sons · What happens: not do, lay, be, stick, die, hold · To what, where: sons
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Briar Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, hold, sons), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 do | nsubj:outer |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 do | advmod |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 thorns | punct |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 thorns | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 thorns | det |
| 9 | thorns | thorn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 do | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bushes | cc |
| 11 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 thorns | conj |
| 12 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 hold | amod |
| 13 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thorns | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 hold | nmod |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 hands | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 hands | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 hands | cop |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 hands | case |
| 20 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 do | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 stuck | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 stuck | cc |
| 23 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 25 stuck | expl |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 stuck | nsubj |
| 25 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | parataxis |
| 26 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 stuck | advmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 died | cc |
| 28 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 stuck | conj |
| 29 | miserably | miserably | ADV | _ | 28 died | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | could | This | for the thorns and bushes and laid hold of sons | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | lay | participle | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | hold | as hands | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | stick | past | sons = son | there | fast property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||
| 5 | die | past | sons = son not said here | miserably property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 6 | hold | sons = son | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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