Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 52

The bill-hook I had driven in, and soon I should have done what I required; but the tool suddenly sprang from the cleft, which so quickly shut up again that it caught my handsome white beard; and here I must stop, for I cannot set myself free.

Who acts: I, tool · What happens: drive in, do, require, spring, shut up, catch · To what, where: bill hook, cleft, handsome white beard, myself

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 (I, tool), 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	4 hook	det
2	bill	bill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hook	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 bill	punct
4	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 driven	nsubj:pass
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 driven	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 driven	aux
7	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	in	in	ADV	_	7 driven	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 done	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 done	cc
11	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 done	advmod
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 done	nsubj
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 done	aux
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 done	aux
15	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 driven	conj
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 done	obj
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 required	nsubj
18	required	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 what	acl:relcl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 sprang	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 sprang	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 tool	det
22	tool	tool	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sprang	nsubj
23	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	24 sprang	advmod
24	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 driven	conj
25	from	from	ADP	_	27 cleft	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 cleft	det
27	cleft	cleft	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sprang	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 shut	punct
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 shut	nsubj:pass
30	so	so	ADV	_	32 shut	advmod
31	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	32 shut	advmod
32	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 cleft	acl:relcl
33	up	up	ADP	_	32 shut	compound:prt
34	again	again	ADV	_	32 shut	advmod
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 caught	mark
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 caught	nsubj
37	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 shut	advcl
38	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 beard	nmod:poss
39	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 beard	amod
40	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 beard	amod
41	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 caught	obj
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 stop	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 stop	cc
44	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	47 stop	advmod
45	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 stop	nsubj
46	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 stop	aux
47	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 sprang	parataxis
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 set	punct
49	for	for	SCONJ	_	53 set	mark
50	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	53 set	nsubj
51	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 set	aux
52	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	53 set	advmod
53	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 stop	conj
54	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	53 set	obj
55	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 set	xcomp
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 driven	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive in	past · perfect · passive		the bill hook				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Trajectory
2	do	should · perfect	I				soon property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	require	past	I					vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	spring	past	the tool		the cleft		suddenly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from cleft=Trajectory
5	shut up	participle · passive		the cleft		again	quickly property	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	catch	past	tool	my handsome white beard				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beard=Theme
7	stop	must	I		here			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
8	not set	can	I	myself			free property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient myself=Result

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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