Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 67

He held on to all the reeds and rushes, but it was of little good, for he was forced to follow the movements of the fish, and was in urgent danger of being dragged into the water.

Who acts: creature, fish · What happens: hold on, be, force, follow, drag, move · To what, where: creature, movements, urgent danger, water, fish

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 (creature, fish), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 held	nsubj
2	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	2 held	compound:prt
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 reeds	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 reeds	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 reeds	det
7	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 held	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 rushes	cc
9	rushes	rush	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 reeds	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 good	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 good	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 good	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 good	cop
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 good	case
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 good	amod
16	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 held	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 forced	punct
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 forced	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 forced	nsubj:pass
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 forced	aux:pass
21	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 good	parataxis
22	to	to	PART	_	23 follow	mark
23	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 forced	xcomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 movements	det
25	movements	movement	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 follow	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 fish	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 fish	det
28	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 movements	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 danger	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 danger	cc
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 danger	cop
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 danger	case
33	urgent	urgent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 danger	amod
34	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 held	obl
35	of	of	SCONJ	_	37 dragged	mark
36	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 dragged	aux:pass
37	dragged	drag	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 danger	acl
38	into	into	ADP	_	40 water	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 water	det
40	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 dragged	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 held	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hold on	past	creature			to all reeds and rushes	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	fish			good property	tree rules
3	force	past · passive		creature			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
4	follow	to-infinitive	creature not said here	the movements of the fish			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent movement=Theme
5	is	past			urgent danger		tree rules
6	drag	gerund · passive		urgent danger not said here	the water		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»
7	move			the fish			nom movement «act transitive»: of=patient

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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