Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 46

The end of the beard was caught in a crevice of the tree, and the little fellow was jumping about like a dog tied to a rope, and did not know what to do.

Who acts: little fellow · What happens: catch, jump about, tie, not know, do · To what, where: end, crevice, dog · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little fellow), 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	2 end	det
2	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 caught	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 beard	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 beard	det
5	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 end	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 caught	aux:pass
7	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 crevice	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 crevice	det
10	crevice	crevice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 caught	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 tree	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tree	det
13	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 crevice	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 jumping	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 jumping	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 fellow	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 fellow	amod
18	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 jumping	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 jumping	aux
20	jumping	jump	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 caught	advcl
21	about	about	ADV	_	20 jumping	advmod
22	like	like	ADP	_	24 dog	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 dog	det
24	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 jumping	obl
25	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 dog	acl
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 rope	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 rope	det
28	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tied	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 know	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 know	cc
31	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 know	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 know	advmod
33	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 caught	conj
34	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	36 do	obj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 do	mark
36	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 know	ccomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	catch	past · passive		the end of the beard	a crevice of the tree		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	jump about	past · progressive	the little fellow			like a dog; about property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tie	participle		a dog not said here		to a rope	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to rope=Co-Patient
4	not know	past · do-support					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	do	to-infinitive					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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