Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Four Clever Brothers, sentence 46

They were still not safe; for he was such a great beast that in his fall he overset the boat, and they had to swim in the open sea upon a few planks.

Who acts: brothers, beast · What happens: not be, be, overset, have, swim · To what, where: great beast, fall, open sea

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Four Clever Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, beast), 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	5 safe	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 safe	cop
3	still	still	ADV	_	5 safe	advmod
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 safe	advmod
5	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 beast	punct
7	for	for	ADP	_	13 beast	case
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 beast	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 beast	cop
10	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	13 beast	det:predet
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 beast	det
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 beast	amod
13	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 safe	parataxis
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 overset	obl:unmarked
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 fall	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 fall	nmod:poss
17	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 overset	obl
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 overset	nsubj
19	overset	overset	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 beast	acl:relcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 boat	det
21	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 overset	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 had	cc
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 had	nsubj
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 overset	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 swim	mark
27	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 had	xcomp
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 sea	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sea	det
30	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 sea	amod
31	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 swim	obl
32	upon	upon	ADP	_	35 planks	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 planks	det
34	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 planks	amod
35	planks	plank	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 swim	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 safe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	brothers = brother			still	safe property	tree rules
2	is	past	beast				for such great beast	tree rules
3	overset	past	beast	such great beast	beast's fall			tree rules
4	have	past	brothers = brother					tree rules
5	swim	to-infinitive	brothers = brother not said here		the open sea		upon a few planks	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Trajectory

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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