Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 81

The children, full of pity, at once took tight hold of the little man, and pulled against the eagle so long that at last he let his booty go.

Who acts: eagle, booty · What happens: take, pull, let, go, hold · To what, where: tight hold, booty, last, little man

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 (eagle, booty), 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	4 full	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 full	punct
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 pity	case
6	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 full	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 took	punct
8	at	at	SCONJ	_	10 took	mark
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 took	advmod
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 full	parataxis
11	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hold	amod
12	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 man	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 man	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 man	amod
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hold	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 pulled	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 pulled	cc
19	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 took	conj
20	against	against	ADP	_	22 eagle	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 eagle	det
22	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pulled	obl
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 long	advmod
24	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 pulled	advcl
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 let	mark
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 last	case
27	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 let	obl
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 let	nsubj
29	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 long	advcl
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 booty	nmod:poss
31	booty	booty	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 let	obj
32	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 let	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 full	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past		tight hold of the little man		once property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
2	pull	past				against the eagle	vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent against eagle=Theme
3	let	past	eagle	eagle's booty	last		tree rules
4	go	infinitive	eagle's booty not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	hold			the little man			nom hold «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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