Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 54
The children tried very hard, but they could not pull the beard out, it was caught too fast.
Who acts: children · What happens: try, not pull out, catch · To what, where: 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 (children), 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 children | det |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 hard | advmod |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 tried | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pull | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 pull | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 pull | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 pull | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 pull | advmod |
| 11 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tried | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 beard | det |
| 13 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pull | obj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 pull | compound:prt |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 caught | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 caught | aux:pass |
| 18 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 pull | conj |
| 19 | too | too | ADV | _ | 20 fast | advmod |
| 20 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 caught | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | the children | hard property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | not pull out | could | children = child | the beard | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | catch | past · passive | beard | fast property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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