Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 52

I had just driven the wedge safely in, and everything was going as I wished; but the cursed wedge was too smooth and suddenly sprang out, and the tree closed so quickly that I could not pull out my beautiful white beard; so now it is tight and I cannot get away, and the silly, sleek, milk-faced things laugh!

Who acts: I, everything, cursed wedge, tree, wedge, silly faced things · What happens: drive, go, wish, curse, be, spring out · To what, where: wedge, beautiful white beard

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 (I, everything, cursed wedge, tree), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 driven	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 driven	aux
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 driven	advmod
4	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wedge	det
6	wedge	wedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 driven	obj
7	safely	safely	ADV	_	8 in	advmod
8	in	in	ADV	_	4 driven	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 going	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 going	cc
11	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	13 going	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 going	aux
13	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 driven	conj
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 wished	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 wished	nsubj
16	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 going	advcl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 smooth	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 smooth	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 wedge	det
20	cursed	curse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 wedge	amod
21	wedge	wedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 smooth	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 smooth	cop
23	too	too	ADV	_	24 smooth	advmod
24	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 driven	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 sprang	cc
26	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	27 sprang	advmod
27	sprang	spring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 smooth	conj
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 sprang	compound:prt
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 closed	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 closed	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 tree	det
32	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 closed	nsubj
33	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 driven	conj
34	so	so	ADV	_	35 quickly	advmod
35	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	33 closed	advmod
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 pull	mark
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 pull	nsubj
38	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 pull	aux
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 pull	advmod
40	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 closed	advcl
41	out	out	ADP	_	40 pull	compound:prt
42	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 beard	nmod:poss
43	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 beard	amod
44	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 beard	amod
45	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 pull	obj
46	;	;	PUNCT	_	51 tight	punct
47	so	so	ADV	_	51 tight	advmod
48	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	51 tight	advmod
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 tight	nsubj
50	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 tight	cop
51	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 driven	conj
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 get	cc
53	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	56 get	nsubj
54	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 get	aux
55	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	56 get	advmod
56	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 tight	conj
57	away	away	ADV	_	56 get	advmod
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 laugh	punct
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	69 laugh	cc
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	68 things	det
61	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	68 things	amod
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 sleek	punct
63	sleek	sleek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 silly	conj
64	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 silly	punct
65	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 faced	compound
66	-	-	PUNCT	_	65 milk	punct
67	faced	faced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	68 things	amod
68	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	69 laugh	nsubj
69	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 driven	conj
70	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 driven	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	drive	past · perfect	I	the wedge			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wedge=Theme
2	go	past · progressive	everything				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wish	past	I				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	curse	participle					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	the cursed wedge			smooth property	tree rules
6	spring out	gerund	the cursed wedge not said here			suddenly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	close	participle	the tree			quickly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
8	not pull out	could	I	my beautiful white beard			tree rules
9	is	present	wedge		now	tight property	tree rules
10	not get away	can	I			away property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	laugh	present	the silly faced things				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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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