Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 75

Certainly, he caught at every stalk and spray near him, but that did not assist him greatly; he was forced to follow all the twistings of the fish, and was perpetually in danger of being drawn into the brook.

Who acts: wind, that · What happens: catch, spray, not assist, force, follow, be · To what, where: stalk, wind, twistings, danger, brook, fish

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 (wind, that), 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	Certainly	certainly	ADV	_	4 caught	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Certainly	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 caught	nsubj
4	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 stalk	case
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 stalk	det
7	stalk	stalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 caught	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 spray	cc
9	spray	spray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	4 caught	conj
10	near	near	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 spray	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 assist	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 assist	cc
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 assist	nsubj
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 assist	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 assist	advmod
17	assist	assist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 spray	parataxis
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 assist	obj
19	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	17 assist	advmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 forced	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 forced	nsubj:pass
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 forced	aux:pass
23	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 caught	parataxis
24	to	to	PART	_	25 follow	mark
25	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 forced	xcomp
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 twistings	det:predet
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 twistings	det
28	twistings	twisting	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 follow	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 fish	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 fish	det
31	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 twistings	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 danger	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 danger	cc
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 danger	cop
35	perpetually	perpetually	ADV	_	37 danger	advmod
36	in	in	ADP	_	37 danger	case
37	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 forced	obl
38	of	of	SCONJ	_	40 drawn	mark
39	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 drawn	aux:pass
40	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 danger	acl
41	into	into	ADP	_	43 brook	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 brook	det
43	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 drawn	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	catch	past	wind			every stalk	certainly property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent at stalk=Asset
2	spray	present	wind not said here				near wind	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme near he=Destination
3	not assist	past · do-support	that		wind		greatly property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary
4	force	past · passive		wind				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
5	follow	to-infinitive	wind not said here	all twistings of the fish				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twisting=Theme
6	is	past				danger	perpetually property	tree rules
7	draw	gerund · passive		danger not said here			into the brook result	vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP S_ING»: into brook=Result
8	twist			the fish				nom twisting «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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