Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 77

They caught hold of him firmly and endeavored to untwist his beard from the line, but in vain; they were too tightly entangled.

Who acts: girls · What happens: catch, endeavor, untwist, entangle, hold · To what, where: hold, beard, line, wind

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), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 caught	nsubj
2	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 caught	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hold	nmod
6	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	2 caught	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 endeavored	cc
8	endeavored	endeavor	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 caught	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 untwist	mark
10	untwist	untwist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 endeavored	xcomp
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 beard	nmod:poss
12	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 untwist	obj
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 line	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 line	det
15	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 untwist	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 vain	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 vain	cc
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 vain	case
19	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 untwist	parataxis
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 entangled	punct
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 entangled	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 entangled	aux
23	too	too	ADV	_	25 entangled	advmod
24	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	25 entangled	advmod
25	entangled	entangle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 caught	parataxis
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	catch	past	girls = girl	hold of wind		firmly property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
2	endeavor	past	girls = girl not said here				tree rules
3	untwist	to-infinitive	girls = girl not said here	wind's beard	the line		tree rules
4	entangle	past · passive	girls = girl			tightly property	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	hold			wind			nom hold «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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