Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 90

They took a firm hold of the little man, and strove so stoutly with the eagle for possession of his contemplated prey, that, after much rough treatment on both sides, the dwarf was left in the hands of his brave little friends, and the eagle took to flight.

Who acts: children, much rough treatment, eagle · What happens: take, strive, contemplate, leave, hold, possess · To what, where: firm hold, dwarf, hands, flight, little man, contemplated prey

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 (children, much rough treatment, eagle), 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 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hold	det
4	firm	firm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hold	amod
5	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 man	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hold	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 strove	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 strove	cc
12	strove	strive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 stoutly	advmod
14	stoutly	stoutly	ADV	_	12 strove	advmod
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 eagle	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 eagle	det
17	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 strove	obl
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 possession	case
19	possession	possession	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 eagle	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 prey	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 prey	nmod:poss
22	contemplated	contemplate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 prey	amod
23	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 possession	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 that	punct
25	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 strove	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 treatment	punct
27	after	after	ADP	_	30 treatment	case
28	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 treatment	amod
29	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 treatment	amod
30	treatment	treatment	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 strove	parataxis
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 sides	case
32	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	33 sides	det
33	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 treatment	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 left	punct
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 dwarf	det
36	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 left	nsubj:pass
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 left	aux:pass
38	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 treatment	acl
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 hands	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 hands	det
41	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 left	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	46 friends	case
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 friends	nmod:poss
44	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 friends	amod
45	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 friends	amod
46	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 hands	nmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 took	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 took	cc
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 eagle	det
50	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 took	nsubj
51	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
52	to	to	PART	_	53 flight	mark
53	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 took	obj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	children = child	a firm hold of the little man			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
2	strive	past	children = child not said here			with the eagle for possession of eagle's contemplated prey; stoutly property	tree rules
3	contemplate	participle					vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
4	leave	past · passive	much rough treatment on both sides not said here	the dwarf	the hands of eagle's brave little friends		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in hand=Location
5	take	past	the eagle	flight			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flight=Theme
6	hold			the little man			nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient
7	possess			eagle's contemplated prey			nom possession «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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