Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 23

So he laid himself down; but they managed so clumsily, that the log of wood fell in and was carried away by the stream.

Who acts: log, mice, stream · What happens: lay down, manage, fall in, carry away · To what, where: log

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (log, mice, stream), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 laid	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 laid	nsubj
3	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 laid	obj
5	down	down	ADP	_	3 laid	compound:prt
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 managed	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 managed	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 managed	nsubj
9	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laid	conj
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 clumsily	advmod
11	clumsily	clumsily	ADV	_	9 managed	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fell	punct
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 fell	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 log	det
15	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fell	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 wood	case
17	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 log	nmod
18	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 managed	parataxis
19	in	in	ADV	_	18 fell	advmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 carried	cc
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 carried	aux:pass
22	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 fell	conj
23	away	away	ADV	_	22 carried	advmod
24	by	by	ADP	_	26 stream	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 stream	det
26	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 carried	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lay down	past	log	log		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Result
2	manage	past	mice = mouse		clumsily property	vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fall in	past	the log of wood			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	carry away	past · passive	the stream		away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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