Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 55

In spite of the dwarf's bad temper, the girls took all possible pains to release the little man, but without avail, the beard could not be moved, it was wedged too tightly.

Who acts: girls, dwarf · What happens: take, release, not move, wedge, spite, temper · To what, where: possible pains, spite, little man, beard, avail, bad temper

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 (girls, dwarf), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 spite	case
2	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 took	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	8 temper	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dwarf	det
5	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 temper	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 dwarf	case
7	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 temper	amod
8	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spite	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 spite	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 girls	det
11	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 took	nsubj
12	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 pains	det
14	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 pains	amod
15	pains	pain	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 took	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 release	mark
17	release	release	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 took	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 man	det
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 man	amod
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 release	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 moved	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 moved	cc
23	without	without	ADP	_	24 avail	case
24	avail	avail	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 moved	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 avail	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 beard	det
27	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 moved	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 moved	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 moved	advmod
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 moved	aux:pass
31	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 took	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 wedged	punct
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 wedged	nsubj:pass
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 wedged	aux:pass
35	wedged	wedge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 took	conj
36	too	too	ADV	_	37 tightly	advmod
37	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	35 wedged	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	the girls	all possible pains	spite of the dwarf's bad temper		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pain=Value in spite=Location
2	release	to-infinitive	the girls not said here	the little man			vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer man=Source
3	not move	could · passive		the beard		without avail	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
4	wedge	past · passive		avail		tightly property	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme
5	spite			the dwarf's bad temper			nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient
6	temper		the dwarf				nom temper «feeling transitive»: poss=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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