Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 69

But he soon found out where he really was; and was forced to have all his wits about him, that he might not get between the cow’s teeth, and so be crushed to death.

Who acts: lack · What happens: find out, be, force, have, not get, crush · To what, where: wits

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lack), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 found	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 found	nsubj
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 found	advmod
4	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 found	compound:prt
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 was	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 was	nsubj
8	really	really	ADV	_	9 was	advmod
9	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 found	advcl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 forced	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 forced	cc
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 forced	aux:pass
13	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 found	parataxis
14	to	to	PART	_	15 have	mark
15	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 forced	xcomp
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 wits	det:predet
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 wits	nmod:poss
18	wits	wit	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 have	obj
19	about	about	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 wits	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 get	punct
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 get	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 get	nsubj
24	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 get	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 get	advmod
26	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 have	conj
27	between	between	ADP	_	31 teeth	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 cow	det
29	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 teeth	nmod:poss
30	’s	's	PART	_	29 cow	case
31	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 get	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 crushed	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 crushed	cc
34	so	so	ADV	_	36 crushed	advmod
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 crushed	aux:pass
36	crushed	crush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 forced	conj
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 death	case
38	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 crushed	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find out	past	lack		soon property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
2	be	past	lack			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	force	past · passive				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: clause=Topic
4	have	to-infinitive		lack's wits	about lack	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wit=Patient
5	not get	might	lack		between the cow's teeth	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	crush	infinitive · passive			to death result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: to death=Result

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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