Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 63

However, he could not escape, there was no help for it, he was forced into a skin with the sausage meat, so was compelled to make himself as comfortable as might be.

Who acts: blow, help · What happens: not escape, be, force, compel, make · To what, where: blow, skin

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Travels of Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blow, help), 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	However	however	ADV	_	6 escape	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 escape	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 escape	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 escape	advmod
6	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 was	punct
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 was	expl
9	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 escape	advcl
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 help	det
11	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 was	nsubj
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 help	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 forced	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 forced	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 forced	aux:pass
17	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 escape	conj
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 skin	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 skin	det
20	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 forced	obl
21	with	with	ADP	_	24 meat	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 meat	det
23	sausage	sausage	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 meat	compound
24	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 skin	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 compelled	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	28 compelled	advmod
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 compelled	aux:pass
28	compelled	compel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 escape	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 make	mark
30	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 compelled	advcl
31	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 make	obj
32	as	as	ADV	_	33 comfortable	advmod
33	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 make	xcomp
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	36 be	mark
35	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 be	aux
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 comfortable	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 escape	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not escape	could	blow			however property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	be	past	no help for way		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	force	past · passive		blow	a skin with the sausage meat		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient
4	compel	past · passive	blow not said here				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»
5	make	to-infinitive	blow not said here	blow		comfortable property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset himself=Product

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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