Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 68

The girls came just in time; they held him fast and tried to free his beard from the line, but all in vain, beard and line were entangled fast together.

Who acts: girls · What happens: come, hold, try, entangle · To what, where: creature, all

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 (girls), 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 girls	det
2	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	just	just	ADV	_	6 time	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 time	case
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 held	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 held	nsubj
9	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 held	obj
11	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 held	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 tried	cc
13	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 held	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 free	mark
15	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 tried	xcomp
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 beard	nmod:poss
17	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 free	nsubj
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 line	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 line	det
20	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 free	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 entangled	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 entangled	cc
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 entangled	nsubj:pass
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 beard	case
25	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 beard	amod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 beard	punct
27	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 all	nmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 line	cc
29	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 beard	conj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 entangled	aux:pass
31	entangled	entangle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 came	conj
32	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 entangled	advmod
33	together	together	ADV	_	31 entangled	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the girls		time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hold	past	girls = girl	creature		fast property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	try	past	girls = girl not said here			free property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	entangle	past · passive		all		fast, together property	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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