Grimms' Fairy Tales, Briar Rose, sentence 28

This, however, none of them could ever do; for the thorns and bushes laid hold of them, as it were with hands; and there they stuck fast, and died wretchedly.

Who acts: This, hold, king · What happens: do, lay, be, stick, die, hold · To what, where: king

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Briar Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, hold, king), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 do	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 This	punct
3	however	however	ADV	_	10 do	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 however	punct
5	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	10 do	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 none	nmod
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 do	aux
9	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 do	advmod
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 thorns	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 thorns	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 thorns	det
14	thorns	thorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 do	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 bushes	cc
16	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 thorns	conj
17	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 hold	amod
18	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 thorns	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 hold	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hands	punct
22	as	as	ADP	_	26 hands	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 hands	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 hands	cop
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 hands	case
26	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 do	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 stuck	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 stuck	cc
29	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 stuck	advmod
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 stuck	nsubj
31	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 do	parataxis
32	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 stuck	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 died	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 died	cc
35	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 stuck	conj
36	wretchedly	wretchedly	ADV	_	35 died	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	could	This			ever	for the thorns and bushes and laid hold of king; however property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	lay	participle						vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	hold				as hands	tree rules
4	stick	past	king		there		fast property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	die	past	king not said here				wretchedly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	hold			king				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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