Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 47

The beard was fixed in a gash in the tree trunk, and the tiny fellow was hopping to and fro, like a dog at the end of a string, but he could not manage to free himself.

Who acts: tiny fellow, fellow · What happens: fix, hop, fro, not manage · To what, where: beard, gash

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tiny fellow, fellow), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 beard	det
2	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fixed	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fixed	aux:pass
4	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 gash	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 gash	det
7	gash	gash	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fixed	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 trunk	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 trunk	det
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 trunk	compound
11	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gash	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 hopping	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 hopping	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fellow	det
15	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fellow	amod
16	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hopping	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 hopping	aux
18	hopping	hop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 fixed	advcl
19	to	to	ADP	_	18 hopping	fixed
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 fro	cc
21	fro	fro	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 hopping	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 dog	punct
23	like	like	ADP	_	25 dog	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 dog	det
25	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fro	obl
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 end	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 end	det
28	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dog	nmod
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 string	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 string	det
31	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 end	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 manage	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 manage	cc
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 manage	nsubj
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 manage	aux
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 manage	advmod
37	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fixed	conj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 free	mark
39	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 manage	xcomp
40	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	39 free	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fixed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fix	past · passive		the beard	a gash in the tree trunk		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient
2	hop	past · progressive	the tiny fellow				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fro	infinitive	the tiny fellow not said here			like a dog at the end of a string	tree rules
4	not manage	could	fellow			free property	vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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