The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 64

He clung on with all his might to every rush and blade of grass, but it didn’t help him much; he had to follow every movement of the fish, and was in great danger of being drawn into the water.

Who acts: fish, creature · What happens: cling on, not help, have, follow, be, draw · To what, where: fish, movement, great danger, water

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, 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 (fish, creature), 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 clung	nsubj
2	clung	cling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	2 clung	compound:prt
4	with	with	ADP	_	10 rush	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 rush	det:predet
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 rush	nmod:poss
7	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 rush	aux
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 rush	case
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 rush	det
10	rush	rush	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 clung	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 blade	cc
12	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rush	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 grass	case
14	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 blade	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 help	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 help	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 help	nsubj
18	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 help	aux
19	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 help	advmod
20	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 clung	advcl
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 help	obj
22	much	much	ADV	_	20 help	advmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 had	nsubj
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 clung	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 follow	mark
27	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 had	xcomp
28	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	29 movement	det
29	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 follow	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 fish	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 fish	det
32	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 movement	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 danger	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 danger	cc
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 danger	cop
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 danger	case
37	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 danger	amod
38	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	obl
39	of	of	SCONJ	_	41 drawn	mark
40	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	41 drawn	aux:pass
41	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 danger	acl
42	into	into	ADP	_	44 water	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 water	det
44	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 drawn	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 clung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	cling on	past	fish				with fish's rush and blade of grass	vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme with rush=Co-Theme
2	not help	past · do-support	creature		fish			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary
3	have	past	fish					tree rules
4	follow	to-infinitive	fish not said here	every movement of the fish				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent movement=Theme
5	is	past				great danger		tree rules
6	draw	gerund · passive		great danger not said here			into the water result	vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP S_ING»: into water=Result
7	rush		fish					nom rush «act transitive»: poss=agent
8	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: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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