Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 72

The youngest son fell to the bottom of the river’s bed: luckily it was nearly dry, but his bones were almost broken, and the bank was so steep that he could find no way to get out.

Who acts: youngest son, river, bank, son · What happens: fall, be, break, find, get out · To what, where: bones, way

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Bird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest son, river, bank, son), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 son	det
2	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 son	amod
3	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 bottom	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bottom	det
7	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 bed	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 river	det
10	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bed	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 river	case
12	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bottom	nmod
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 dry	punct
14	luckily	luckily	ADV	_	18 dry	advmod
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 dry	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 dry	cop
17	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	18 dry	advmod
18	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fell	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 broken	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 broken	cc
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 bones	nmod:poss
22	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 broken	nsubj:pass
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 broken	aux:pass
24	almost	almost	ADV	_	25 broken	advmod
25	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 fell	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 steep	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 steep	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 bank	det
29	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 steep	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 steep	cop
31	so	so	ADV	_	32 steep	advmod
32	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 broken	parataxis
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 find	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 find	nsubj
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 find	aux
36	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 steep	advcl
37	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	38 way	det
38	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 find	obj
39	to	to	PART	_	40 get	mark
40	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 way	acl
41	out	out	ADV	_	40 get	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the youngest son		to the bottom of the river's bed	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to bottom=Theme
2	is	past	river		dry, luckily, nearly property	tree rules
3	break	past · passive		son's bones	almost property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	is	past	the bank		steep property	tree rules
5	find	could	son	no way		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic
6	get out	to-infinitive	son not said here	no way not said here	out property	vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: 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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