Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage, sentence 11

Beg and pray as the mouse and the sausage might, it was of no use; the bird remained master of the situation, and the venture had to be made.

Who acts: Beg, bird, venture · What happens: pray, be, remain, have, make · To what, where: master

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Beg, bird, venture), 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	Beg	beg	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 use	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 pray	cc
3	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Beg	conj
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 mouse	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mouse	det
6	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pray	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sausage	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sausage	det
9	sausage	sausage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mouse	conj
10	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 use	aux
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 might	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 use	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 use	cop
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 use	case
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 use	det
16	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 remained	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bird	det
19	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 remained	nsubj
20	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 use	parataxis
21	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 remained	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 situation	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 situation	det
24	situation	situation	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 master	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 had	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 had	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 venture	det
28	venture	venture	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 had	nsubj
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 remained	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	32 made	mark
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 made	aux:pass
32	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 had	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 use	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pray	present	Beg not said here		as the mouse and the sausage	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is	might	Beg		of no use	tree rules
3	remain	past	the bird	master of the situation		vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme master=Attribute
4	have	past	the venture			tree rules
5	make	to-infinitive · passive	the venture not said here			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»

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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