Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 66

The little man had been sitting there fishing, and unluckily the wind had tangled up his beard with the fishing-line; a moment later a big fish made a bite and the feeble creature had not strength to pull it out; the fish kept the upper hand and pulled the dwarf towards him.

Who acts: little man, big fish, feeble creature, strength, fish, there · What happens: sit, tangle up, make, have, pull out, keep · To what, where: fishing, wind, bite, strength, fish, upper hand

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 man, big fish, feeble creature, strength), 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	3 man	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sitting	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sitting	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 sitting	aux
6	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	there	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Typo=Yes	8 fishing	nmod:poss
8	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sitting	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 tangled	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 tangled	cc
11	unluckily	unluckily	ADV	_	15 tangled	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wind	det
13	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tangled	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 tangled	aux
15	tangled	tangle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 sitting	parataxis
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 tangled	compound:prt
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 beard	nmod:poss
18	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tangled	obj
19	with	with	ADP	_	23 line	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 line	det
21	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 line	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 fishing	punct
23	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tangled	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 made	punct
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 moment	det
26	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 later	obl:unmarked
27	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	31 made	advmod
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 fish	det
29	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 fish	amod
30	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 made	nsubj
31	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 tangled	parataxis
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 bite	det
33	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 made	obj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 had	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 creature	det
36	feeble	feeble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 creature	amod
37	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 had	nsubj
38	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 made	conj
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 strength	advmod
40	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 had	obj
41	to	to	PART	_	42 pull	mark
42	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 had	xcomp
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 pull	obj
44	out	out	ADP	_	42 pull	compound:prt
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 kept	punct
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 fish	det
47	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 kept	nsubj
48	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sitting	parataxis
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 hand	det
50	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 hand	amod
51	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 kept	obj
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 pulled	cc
53	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 kept	conj
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 dwarf	det
55	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 pulled	obj
56	towards	towards	ADP	_	57 him	case
57	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 pulled	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sit	past · perfect · progressive	the little man	there's fishing		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fishing=Theme
2	tangle up	past · perfect · passive		the wind	with the fishing line; unluckily property	tree rules
3	make	past	a big fish	a bite	late property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bite=Product
4	have	past	the feeble creature	strength		tree rules
5	pull out	to-infinitive	strength not said here	fish		tree rules
6	keep	past	the fish	the upper hand		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
7	pull	past	the fish not said here	the dwarf	towards man	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dwarf=Theme towards he=Destination
8	fish		there = they			nom fishing «act transitive»: poss=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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